Abrahams v Commonwealth Land Tit. Ins. Co.

Abrahams v Commonwealth Land Tit. Ins. Co. 2011 NY Slip Op 01224 Decided on February 15, 2011 Appellate Division, Second Department Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431. This opinion is uncorrected and subject to revision before publication in the Official Reports.

Decided on February 15, 2011
SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORKAPPELLATE DIVISION : SECOND JUDICIAL DEPARTMENT
PETER B. SKELOS, J.P.
THOMAS A. DICKERSON
LEONARD B. AUSTIN
JEFFREY A. COHEN, JJ.
2010-01091
(Index No. 22716/07)

[*1]Solomon Abrahams, appellant,

v

Commonwealth Land Title Insurance Company, etc., respondent.




Solomon Abrahams, Scarsdale, N.Y., appellant pro se.
Zarin & Steinmetz, White Plains, N.Y. (David S. Steinmetz
and David J. Cooper of counsel), for
respondent.


DECISION & ORDER

In an action to recover damages for breach of fiduciary duty, the plaintiff appeals, as limited by his brief, from so much of an order of the Supreme Court, Westchester County (Nicolai, J.), entered December 29, 2009, as granted the defendant's motion for summary judgment dismissing the complaint.

ORDERED that the order is affirmed insofar as appealed from, with costs.

The defendant established its prima facie entitlement to judgment as a matter of law by demonstrating that it did not breach its fiduciary duty, as escrow depositary, to the depositor. The defendant showed that it properly disbursed escrow funds, in accordance with the terms of an escrow agreement, to the judgment creditor to satisfy a judgment for which the funds had been placed in escrow (see Cash v Titan Fin. Servs., Inc., 58 AD3d 785, 790; see generally Rut v Young Adult Inst., Inc., 74 AD3d 776; Takayama v Schaefer, 240 AD2d 21, 25). In opposition, the plaintiff failed to raise a triable issue of fact.

The plaintiff's remaining contentions are without merit.

Accordingly, the Supreme Court properly granted the defendant's motion for summary judgment dismissing the complaint.
SKELOS, J.P., DICKERSON, AUSTIN and COHEN, JJ., concur.

ENTER:

Matthew G. Kiernan

Clerk of the Court