Steele v Watson

Steele v Watson 2007 NY Slip Op 01369 [37 AD3d 284] February 15, 2007 Appellate Division, First Department Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431. As corrected through Wednesday, April 11, 2007

Beatrice Shirley Steele, Appellant,
v
Jerry Watson et al., Respondents.

—[*1] Beatrice Shirley Steele, appellant pro se. Kelly & Rubin, LLP, New York (Michael F. Rubin of counsel), for respondents.

Order, Supreme Court, Bronx County (George D. Salerno, J.), entered on or about June 19, 2005, which, in an action to recover the cash collateral paid by plaintiff to secure a bail bond releasing her son from jail, granted defendants' motion to dismiss the complaint, unanimously affirmed, without costs.

Any possible cause of action accrued when bail was exonerated upon plaintiff's son's plea of guilty, nearly 12 years before plaintiff's commencement of the action, and is time-barred (CPLR 213 [2]; 214 [3]). Concur—Mazzarelli, J.P., Andrias, Friedman, Sweeny and Kavanagh, JJ.