Case Name: Max Pellegrini et al., Appellants, v. Kelly Brock, Also Known as Kelly Brock Pellegrini, Respondent, et al., Defendant
Court: New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 2009-09-29
Citations: 65 A.D.3d 971
Docket Number: 
Parties: Max Pellegrini et al., Appellants, v Kelly Brock, Also Known as Kelly Brock Pellegrini, Respondent, et al., Defendant.
Judges: 
Reporter: Appellate Division Reports
Volume: 65
Pages: 971–971

Head Matter:
Max Pellegrini et al., Appellants, v Kelly Brock, Also Known as Kelly Brock Pellegrini, Respondent, et al., Defendant.
[885 NYS2d 413]

Opinion:
— Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Harold B. Beeler, J.), entered January 12, 2009, which, insofar as appealed from as limited by the briefs, in this action where plaintiffs seek, inter alia, a declaratory judgment that the monies they transferred to defendant Enrico Pellegrini and defendant-respondent constituted a loan rather than a gift, denied plaintiffs' motion for summary judgment, unanimously affirmed, with costs.
"On a motion for summary judgment, the court should accept as true the evidence submitted by the opposing party" (O'Sullivan v Presbyterian Hosp. in City of N.Y. at Columbia Presbyt. Med. Ctr., 217 AD2d 98, 101 [1995]). Here, defendant-respondent submitted evidence in admissible form which raised a triable issue of fact as to whether the money at issue was a gift or a loan, including, inter alia, an affidavit from a nonparty who said that plaintiff Roberta Pellegrini had told her that plaintiffs had given defendants money to buy a house.
We have considered plaintiffs' remaining arguments and find them unavailing. Concur — Mazzarelli, J.E, Saxe, Moskowitz, Renwick and Richter, JJ.