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Fenwick v Price
2004 NY Slip Op 50423(U)
Decided on May 11, 2004
Appellate Term, First Department
Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431.
This opinion is uncorrected and will not be published in the printed Official Reports.


Decided on May 11, 2004
APPELLATE TERM OF THE SUPREME COURT, FIRST DEPARTMENT

PRESENT:
HON. LUCINDO SUAREZ, P.J.
HON. WILLIAM P. McCOOE
HON. WILLIAM J. DAVIS, Justices.
570895/03

LILA FENWICK, Petitioner-Landlord-Appellant,

against

RONALD PRICE, Respondent-Tenant-Respondent.


Landlord appeals from an order of the Civil Court, New York County, dated June 4, 2003 (Inez Hoyos, J.) denying her motion to reargue a prior order which had denied landlord's oral application to amend the nonpayment petition.


PER CURIAM:

Order dated June 4, 2003 (Inez Hoyos, J.) affirmed, with $10 costs.

Although the court's order "denied" the landlord's motion to reargue, the court apparently rejected the landlord's argument on the merits and, indeed, considered procedural events postdating the denial of the landlord's initial, oral application to amend the nonpayment petition. In such circumstances, the order, whether it effectively granted reargument or treated the motion as one for renewal, is appealable (see, Premier Capital v Damon Realty Corp., 299 AD2d 158 [2002]; Sementilli v Ruscigno, 286 AD2d 242 [2001]). The landlord's substantive arguments on appeal are, however, without merit. No basis was shown to allow the landlord to amend the nonpayment petition to include a claim for rent arrears covered by the final judgment issued in the prior nonpayment proceeding between the parties and "deemed satisfied" therein (Fenwick v Price, NYLJ, Feb. 1, 2001, at 28 col 2 [App Term, 1st Dept], lv denied 2001 NY App [*2]Div LEXIS 7157 [June 14, 2001]).
This constitutes the decision and order of the court.