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Scott v Time Warner Cable Co.
2013 NY Slip Op 50484(U) [39 Misc 3d 132(A)]
Decided on March 29, 2013
Appellate Term, Second Department
Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431.
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Decided on March 29, 2013
SUPREME COURT, APPELLATE TERM, SECOND DEPARTMENT, 2d, 11th and 13th JUDICIAL DISTRICTS

PRESENT: : PESCE, P.J., WESTON and SOLOMON, JJ
2011-2982 Q C.

Donna Scott, Appellant, —

against

Time Warner Cable Co. and MIDTOWN EXPRESS, Respondents.


Appeal from a judgment of the Civil Court of the City of New York, Queens County (Harriet L. Thompson, J.), entered March 14, 2011. The judgment, after a nonjury trial, dismissed the action.


ORDERED that the judgment is affirmed, without costs.

In this small claims action, plaintiff seeks to recover the sum of $2,000 for damage to a television set. Following a nonjury trial, judgment was entered in favor of defendants dismissing the action. Upon a review of the record, we find that the judgment rendered substantial justice between the parties in accordance with the rules and principles of substantive law (see CCA 1804, 1807).

At trial, plaintiff failed to establish that she was the owner of the television, and, in any event, she failed to prove her damages through either expert testimony or an itemized bill or invoice, receipted or marked paid, or two itemized estimates for services or repairs (see CCA 1804). While plaintiff argues on appeal that she did not feel that she needed to present witnesses, [*2]it is well settled that a plaintiff who appears pro se does so at her own peril and acquires no greater rights than that of any other litigant (see Roundtree v Singh, 143 AD2d 995 [1988]).

Accordingly, the judgment is affirmed.

Pesce, P.J., Weston and Solomon, JJ., concur.
Decision Date: March 29, 2013