Appellate Division: Second Judicial Department

M267364

kbp/

MARK C. DILLON, J.P.

RUTH C. BALKIN

HECTOR D. LASALLE

BETSY BARROS, JJ.

2017-10420 Master Holding, Inc., respondent, v Guru P. Hariprasad, appellant, et al., defendants. (Index No. 704917/14)

DECISION & ORDER ON MOTION

Motion by the appellant to stay all proceedings in the above-entitled action pending hearing and determination of an appeal from an order of the Supreme Court, Queens County, dated September 11, 2017. By order to show cause dated October 2, 2019, the parties were directed to show cause before this Court why an order should or should not be made and entered dismissing the appeal from the order on the ground that the right of direct appeal from the order terminated upon entry in the above-entitled action of a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County, entered March 12, 2018.

Now, upon the order to show cause and the papers filed in response thereto, and upon the papers filed in support of the appellant's motion and no papers having been filed in opposition or in relation thereto, it is

ORDERED that the motion to dismiss the appeal is granted, and the appeal is dismissed, without costs or disbursements (see Matter of Aho, 39 NY2d 241); and it is further,

ORDERED that the appellant's motion is denied as academic.

DILLON, J.P., BALKIN, LASALLE and BARROS, JJ., concur.

ENTER:

Aprilanne Agostino

Clerk of the Court