Chalasani v Merchant

[*1] Chalasani v Merchant 2013 NY Slip Op 51101(U) Decided on June 28, 2013 Appellate Term, Second Department Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431. This opinion is uncorrected and will not be published in the printed Official Reports.

Decided on June 28, 2013
SUPREME COURT, APPELLATE TERM, SECOND DEPARTMENT, 9th and 10th JUDICIAL DISTRICTS
PRESENT: : NICOLAI, P.J., IANNACCI and TOLBERT, JJ
2012-28 N C.

Prasad Chalasani, Appellant,

against

Iqbal Merchant, Respondent.

Appeal from a judgment of the District Court of Nassau County, Fourth District (Eugene H. Shifrin, Ct. Atty. Ref.), entered June 22, 2011. The judgment, insofar as appealed from, after a nonjury trial, dismissed the action.

ORDERED that the judgment, insofar as appealed from, is affirmed, without costs.

In this small claims action seeking to recover the principal sum of $5,000, it is our opinion that substantial justice was done between the parties according to the rules and principles of substantive law (UDCA 1804, 1807). An appellate court may not reverse a determination of the small claims court absent a showing that there is no support in the record for the court's determination or that the determination is so clearly erroneous as to warrant reversal (see Moses v Randolph, 236 AD2d 706 [1997]). Upon a review of the record, we find no basis to disturb the judgment.

Accordingly, the judgment, insofar as appealed from, is affirmed.

Nicolai, P.J., Iannacci and Tolbert, JJ., concur. [*2]
Decision Date: June 28, 2013