Cement Shoes, Inc. v Mak
2008 NY Slip Op 04790 [51 AD3d 600]
May 29, 2008
Appellate Division, First Department
Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431.
As corrected through Wednesday, July 16, 2008


Cement Shoes, Inc., Respondent,
v
Jackson Mak et al., Appellants.

[*1] Perry Ian Tischler, Bayside, for appellants.

Law Office of Arnold N. Kriss, New York (John C. Theodorellis of counsel), for respondent.

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Eileen A. Rakower, J.), entered March 13, 2007, after a nonjury trial, awarding plaintiff the principal sum of $100,069, unanimously modified, on the law, to the extent of dismissing the complaint as against Andy Mak, and otherwise affirmed, with costs in favor of plaintiff payable by defendant Jackson Mak. The Clerk is directed to enter an amended judgment accordingly. Appeal from order, same court and Justice, entered September 19, 2006, unanimously dismissed, without costs, as subsumed in the appeal from the judgment.

The finding that defendants' delay in consenting to an assignment, a breach of the assignment clause in plaintiff's lease, caused the proposed assignee to abandon the deal to purchase plaintiff's business was based on a fair interpretation of the evidence. The damages, based on the purchase price in an existing contract, were not speculative (see generally Kenford Co. v County of Erie, 67 NY2d 257, 261 [1986]), and were within the contemplation of the parties.

The claim against Andy Mak, who was not a party to the lease, should have been dismissed as he was an agent for a disclosed principal.

We have considered defendant Jackson Mak's other contentions and find them unavailing. Concur—Friedman, J.P., Williams, Catterson and Acosta, JJ.