Watson v Alliance II Assoc.
2010 NY Slip Op 04524 [73 AD3d 668]
May 27, 2010
Appellate Division, First Department
Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431.
As corrected through Wednesday, June 30, 2010


Paula Watson, Appellant,
v
Alliance II Associates, Respondent, et al., Defendants.

[*1] Arnold E. DiJoseph, P.C., New York (Arnold E. DiJoseph, III of counsel), for appellant.

LaSorsa & Beneventano, White Plains (Michelle Dunleavy of counsel), for respondent.

Order, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Mary Ann Brigantti-Hughes, J.), entered March 24, 2009, which, in an action for personal injuries that was marked off the calendar as settled, denied plaintiff's motion to restore the case to the trial calendar, unanimously reversed, on the law, without costs, the motion granted, the settlement vacated, and the case restored to the trial calendar.

The motion to restore should have been granted, since defendant failed to come forward with proof that plaintiff's attorney was authorized to settle the case (see McGuffin v Port of N.Y. Auth., 58 AD2d 793 [1977]). The record does not support the court's finding that plaintiff should be bound to the settlement (see Mazzella v American Home Constr. Co., 12 AD2d 910 [1961]). Concur—Tom, J.P., Friedman, Nardelli, Acosta and Abdus-Salaam, JJ.