ELASID SABRY v. MOHAMMAD W. TARAKJI

 

NOT FOR PUBLICATION WITHOUT THE

APPROVAL OF THE APPELLATE DIVISION

SUPERIOR COURT OF NEW JERSEY

APPELLATE DIVISION

DOCKET NO. A-2916-04T12916-04T1

ELASID SABRY,

Plaintiff-Respondent,

v.

MOHAMMAD W. TARAKJI,

Defendant-Appellant.

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Submitted September 18, 2006 - Decided September 28, 2006

Before Judges Lintner and Seltzer.

On appeal from the Superior Court of

New Jersey, Law Division, Special Civil

Part, Passaic County, LT-8561-04.

Mohammad W. Tarakji, appellant pro se.

Respondent did not file a brief.

PER CURIAM

Defendant appeals from a judgment for possession entered in a summary dispossess action after a bench trial. We affirm.

The record reveals that plaintiff owns a two-family residence in Clifton, New Jersey. Defendant leases the second floor. The relationship between the parties may be characterized fairly as antagonistic. Plaintiff ultimately instituted a summary dispossess action pursuant to N.J.S.A. 2A:18-53(c). Defendant asserted various defenses, and Judge Burrell Humphreys heard testimony over four days. On January 20, 2005, Judge Humphreys resolved all of the factual and legal disputes in favor of plaintiff and directed the entry of a judgment of possession with costs. Defendant appeals, asserting twenty-seven points of alleged error.

We have considered defendant's arguments in light of the record developed before Judge Humphreys and find none of the arguments advanced to contain sufficient merit to justify discussion in a written opinion. R. 2:11-3(e)(1)(A) and (E).

Affirmed substantially for the reasons set forth by Judge Humphreys in his thorough oral opinion of January 20, 2005.

 

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