Matter of Kavanaugh v Consumers Beverages, Inc.
2024 NY Slip Op 01433
Decided on March 15, 2024
Appellate Division, Fourth Department
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Decided on March 15, 2024 SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK Appellate Division, Fourth Judicial Department
PRESENT: SMITH, J.P., CURRAN, OGDEN, AND GREENWOOD, JJ.

193 CA 23-00451

[*1]IN THE MATTER OF MATTHEW KAVANAUGH, JAMES KAVANAUGH AND HELEN KAVANAUGH, FOR THE JUDICIAL DISSOLUTION OF CONSUMERS BEVERAGES, INC. PURSUANT TO BCL § 1104-A, PETITIONERS-APPELLANTS,

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CONSUMERS BEVERAGES, INC., ET AL., RESPONDENTS, CORNELIUS KAVANAUGH, ALSO KNOWN AS NEIL KAVANAUGH, RESPONDENT-RESPONDENT, AND MARY ELLEN KAVANAUGH, RESPONDENT-APPELLANT. (APPEAL NO. 1.)




GROSS SHUMAN P.C., BUFFALO (KEVIN R. LELONEK OF COUNSEL), FOR PETITIONERS-APPELLANTS.

GARVEY & GARVEY, BUFFALO (DENNIS J. GARVEY OF COUNSEL), FOR RESPONDENT-APPELLANT.

CONNORS LLP, BUFFALO (VINCENT E. DOYLE, III, OF COUNSEL), FOR RESPONDENT-RESPONDENT.

BARCLAY DAMON, LLP, BUFFALO (JAMES P. MILBRAND OF COUNSEL), FOR RESPONDENT CONSUMERS BEVERAGES, INC.



Appeals from an order of the Supreme Court, Erie County (Timothy J. Walker, A.J.), entered February 21, 2023. The order granted the motion of respondent Cornelius Kavanaugh, also known as Neil Kavanaugh, to dismiss the petition and cross-petitions.

It is hereby ORDERED that the order so appealed from is unanimously affirmed without costs for reasons stated at Supreme Court.

Entered: March 15, 2024

Ann Dillon Flynn

Clerk of the Court