| Sharper Props. Enters., Inc. v Hubbard Sand & Gravel, Inc. |
| 2008 NY Slip Op 05673 [52 AD3d 681] |
| June 17, 2008 |
| Appellate Division, Second Department |
| Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431. |
| Sharper Properties Enterprises, Inc., Appellant, v Hubbard Sand & Gravel, Inc., Respondent. |
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Glynn Mercep and Purcell, LLP, Stony Brook, N.Y. (Timothy B. Glynn of counsel), for
respondent.
In an action, inter alia, for a judgment declaring that the defendant effected an actual, partial eviction of the plaintiff from certain premises in violation of a lease and to recover damages for trespass and injury to the premises, the plaintiff appeals from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Suffolk County (Emerson, J.), entered April 5, 2007, which, after a nonjury trial, awarded only nominal damages for trespass in the sum of $1 and, in effect, awarded $0 damages for injury to the premises.
Ordered that the judgment is modified, on the law, by adding a provision thereto declaring that the defendant effected an actual, partial eviction of the plaintiff from the leased premises; as so modified, the judgment is affirmed insofar as appealed from, with costs to the defendant.
The Supreme Court properly awarded only nominal damages of $1 since the plaintiff failed to establish the proper measure of its damages for actual partial eviction (see Long Is. Airports Limousine Serv. Corp. v Northwest Airlines, 124 AD2d 711 [1986]).
The plaintiff's remaining contentions are without merit. [*2]
Since this is, in part, a declaratory judgment action, the Supreme Court, Suffolk County, should have included in the judgment appealed from an appropriate declaration in favor of the plaintiff (see Lanza v Wagner, 11 NY2d 317, 334 [1962], appeal dismissed 371 US 74 [1962], cert denied 371 US 901 [1962]). Florio, J.P., Angiolillo, Carni and Belen, JJ., concur.