Case Name: Barnett Rothenberg et al., Respondents, v. Irwin Lampert et al., Appellants
Court: New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1990-04-30
Citations: 160 A.D.2d 986
Docket Number: 
Parties: Barnett Rothenberg et al., Respondents, v Irwin Lampert et al., Appellants.
Judges: 
Reporter: Appellate Division Reports
Volume: 160
Pages: 986–986

Head Matter:
Barnett Rothenberg et al., Respondents, v Irwin Lampert et al., Appellants.

Opinion:
In an action to recover damages for breach of a contract to purchase real property, the defendant buyers appeal from (1) an order of the Supreme Court, Rock-land County (Weiner, J.), dated November 3, 1988, which granted the plaintiffs' motion for summary judgment and for dismissal of the answer and counterclaims and denied their cross motion for summary judgment, and (2) a judgment of said court dated March 8, 1989, which is in favor of the plaintiffs and against them in the principal sum of $48,000.
Ordered that the appeal from the order is dismissed; and it is further,
Ordered that the judgment is affirmed; and it is further,
Ordered that the plaintiffs are awarded one bill of costs.
The appeal from the intermediate order must be dismissed because the right of direct appeal therefrom terminated with the entry of judgment in the action (see, Matter of Aho, 39 NY2d 241, 248). The issues raised on appeal from the order are brought up for review and have been considered on the appeal from the judgment (CPLR 5501 [a] [1]).
We agree with the Supreme Court's conclusion that the parties entered into a valid contract for the sale of the plaintiffs' home. The contract was executed by the defendants on April 1, 1988 and delivered to the plaintiffs who executed it on April 4, 1988. No delivery of the contract from the plaintiffs to the defendants was required (see, 61 NY Jur 2d, Statute of Frauds, § 150). The contract was breached by the defendants on April 8, 1988 when they repudiated it and stopped payment on their check for the deposit. Since the contract provided for liquidated damages in the amount of the deposit in the event of default by the defendants, the plaintiffs are entitled to liquidated damages in the principal sum of $48,000, the amount of the deposit. Thompson, J. P., Brown, Kunzeman and Harwood, JJ., concur.