Case Name: Barbara Lerner, Individually and as 50% Shareholder Suing Derivatively on Behalf of Resort Properties Ltd. of the Hamptons, Appellant, v. Frederick S. Kelling, Jr., et al., Respondents
Court: New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1999-11-22
Citations: 266 A.D.2d 434
Docket Number: 
Parties: Barbara Lerner, Individually and as 50% Shareholder Suing Derivatively on Behalf of Resort Properties Ltd. of the Hamptons, Appellant, v Frederick S. Kelling, Jr., et al., Respondents.
Judges: 
Reporter: Appellate Division Reports
Volume: 266
Pages: 434–435

Head Matter:
Barbara Lerner, Individually and as 50% Shareholder Suing Derivatively on Behalf of Resort Properties Ltd. of the Hamptons, Appellant, v Frederick S. Kelling, Jr., et al., Respondents.
[698 NYS2d 527]

Opinion:
—In an action, inter alia, to recover damages for breach of contract, the plaintiff appeals from an order of the Supreme Court, Suffolk County (Gowan, J.), dated October 15, 1998, which denied her motion for summary judgment on the first cause of action in the complaint.
Ordered that the order is affirmed, with costs.
The plaintiff, a shareholder of the defendant corporation, established a prima facie case for summary judgment on the first cause of action in the complaint to recover damages for salary allegedly due to her under the parties' 1988 written agreement. The submissions by the individual defendant in op position to the plaintiffs motion were sufficient to raise triable issues of fact with respect to, inter alia, his claim that the plaintiff was not entitled to a distribution of profits as salary because she improperly obtained funds from the corporation's line of credit. Accordingly, the Supreme Court properly denied the plaintiff's motion (see, Zuckerman v City of New York, 49 NY2d 557). O'Brien, J. P., Krausman, Florio and Feuerstein, JJ., concur.