Case Name: Gregory J. Lloyd et al., Appellants, v. Town of Wheatfield, Respondent
Court: New York Court of Appeals
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1986-03-20
Citations: 67 N.Y.2d 809
Docket Number: 
Parties: Gregory J. Lloyd et al., Appellants, v Town of Wheatfield, Respondent.
Judges: 
Reporter: New York Reports
Volume: 67
Pages: 809–811

Head Matter:
Gregory J. Lloyd et al., Appellants, v Town of Wheatfield, Respondent.
Argued February 7, 1986;
decided March 20, 1986
APPEARANCES OF COUNSEL
Roger J. Niemel for appellants.
F. Warren Kahn for respondent.

Opinion:
OPINION OF THE COURT
Memorandum.
The order of the Appellate Division should be affirmed, with costs.
The damages sought by plaintiffs, for purely economic loss, are too speculative as a matter of law to sustain plaintiffs' causes of action and the complaint, therefore, was properly dismissed (see, Tobin v Grossman, 24 NY2d 609, 615-616 [citing Battalla v State of New York, 10 NY2d 237, 242]; cf. Friedland v Myers, 139 NY 432, 435 [damages may be recovered provided that they are proximate in effect, neither speculative nor uncertain in character and were reasonably foreseen as a consequence of the wrong]). Accordingly, we need not decide whether the decision of defendant's building inspector involved discretionary or ministerial conduct (see, Rottkamp v Young, 21 AD2d 373, affd on opn below 15 NY2d 831).
Chief Judge Wachtler and Judges Meyer, Simons, Kaye, Alexander and Titone concur; Judge Hancock, Jr., taking no part.
Order affirmed, with costs, in a memorandum.