Case ID: ad_273/html/1025-02.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

John G. Ward et al., as Trustees under the Will of William J. Ward, Sr., Deceased, et al., Appellants, v. Charles L. Feltman et al., Respondents.
   In an action for restitution and to recover for unlawful use and occupation of real property, order granting defendants’ motion to dismiss the complaint for insufficiency, under rule 106 of the Rules of Civil Practice, and the judgment of dismissal thereon entered, reversed, with $10 costs and disbursements, and the motion denied, with $10 costs. In our opinion plaintiffs, suing by their first cause of action for restitution upon the ground of unjust enrichment of defendants during the continuance of injunctions and stays issued by the court, do not sue for damages resulting from the continuance of such restraints; and by seeking by their second cause of action to recover for unlawful use and occupation for a period exceeding that in which they were so restrained state a cause of action which must survive this motion. (Bedell Co. v. Harris, 228 App. Div. 529; City of New York v. Brown, 179 N. Y. 303; Civ. Prac. Act. § 275; Condon v. Associated Hospital Service, 287 N. Y. 411, 414.) The alleged causes of action are not to recover damages for injury to property, and no portion of the claims alleged accrued prior to the time limited by law for the commencement' of an action thereon. (Civ. Prac. Act, § 53; Pitcher v. Sutton, 238 App. Div. 291, 293.) Defendants’ time to answer the complaint is hereby extended until twenty days after entry of the order hereon. Lewis, P. J., Carswell, Adel, Sneed \and Wenzel, J J., concur. [See 274 App. Div. 802. J