Town of Amherst v Pepper Tree Hgts. Hous. Co., Inc.
2015 NY Slip Op 08548 [133 AD3d 1324]
November 20, 2015
Appellate Division, Fourth Department
Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431.
As corrected through Wednesday, December 30, 2015


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 Town of Amherst et al., Respondents, v Pepper Tree Heights Housing Co., Inc., et al., Appellants, and County of Erie, Respondent.

Nesper, Ferber & Digiacomo, LLP, Amherst (Gabriel J. Ferber of counsel), for defendants-appellants.

Bennett, Difilippo & Kurtzhalts, LLP, Holland (Ronald P. Bennett of counsel), for plaintiff-respondent Town of Amherst, a Municipal Corporation.

Gross, Shuman, Brizdle & Gilfillan, P.C., Buffalo (John K. Rottaris of counsel), for plaintiff-respondent Sweet Home Central School District.

Bengart & Demarco, LLP, Tonawanda (Sean R. McDermott of counsel), for defendant-respondent.

Appeal from an order of the Supreme Court, Erie County (Timothy J. Walker, A.J.), entered July 30, 2014. The order, insofar as appealed from, denied in part the motion of defendants Pepper Tree Heights Housing Co., Inc. and Pepper Tree Heights Associates, L.P. seeking to dismiss plaintiffs' amended complaint against them.

It is hereby ordered that the order insofar as appealed from is unanimously reversed on the law without costs, the motion is granted in its entirety, and the amended complaint against defendants Pepper Tree Heights Housing Co., Inc. and Pepper Tree Heights Associates, L.P. is dismissed.

Memorandum: Defendants-appellants (defendants) appeal from an order that denied in part their motion to dismiss the amended complaint against them. We reverse the order insofar as appealed from based on the reasoning set forth in our decision in Town of Amherst v Brewster Mews Hous. Co., Inc. (133 AD3d 1317 [2015]). Present—Scudder, P.J., Smith, Carni, Lindley and Valentino, JJ.