Case ID: misc2d_116/html/0547-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "John S. Lockman, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Holiday Universal, Inc., Plaintiff, v Lennox G. Patterson, Defendant.
    Supreme Court, Special Term, Nassau County,
    November 12, 1982
    APPEARANCES OF COUNSEL
    
      Batzar & Weinberg for plaintiff. Lennox G. Patterson, defendant pro se.
    
   OPINION OF THE COURT

John S. Lockman, J.

Motion to vacate a satisfaction of judgment, though unopposed, is denied, without prejudice.

Plaintiff secured a judgment for $626.58 against defendant upon a retail installment credit agreement. Defendant paid $400 on July 6, 1982. On August 5, 1982, plaintiff’s attorney received a third-party check in payment of the balance. On August 18, 1982, he filed a satisfaction of judgment. Thereafter, the third-party check was returned for insufficient funds.

Having accepted the third-party check, plaintiff cites no authority which would entitle him to vacating the satisfaction. Clearly, he has a cause of action against the maker of the check. (Uniform Commercial Code, § 3-122.) Absent authority to support the granting of the relief sought, the court is constrained to deny the motion but without prejudice.