Case Name: Standardbred Owners Association, Inc., Plaintiff, v. Yonkers Racing Corporation, Defendant and Third-Party Plaintiff-Appellant. Roosevelt Raceway, Inc., Third-Party Defendant-Respondent
Court: New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1994-11-14
Citations: 209 A.D.2d 507
Docket Number: 
Parties: Standardbred Owners Association, Inc., Plaintiff, v Yonkers Racing Corporation, Defendant and Third-Party Plaintiff-Appellant. Roosevelt Raceway, Inc., Third-Party Defendant-Respondent.
Judges: 
Reporter: Appellate Division Reports
Volume: 209
Pages: 507–508

Head Matter:
Standardbred Owners Association, Inc., Plaintiff, v Yonkers Racing Corporation, Defendant and Third-Party Plaintiff-Appellant. Roosevelt Raceway, Inc., Third-Party Defendant-Respondent.
[619 NYS2d 613]

Opinion:
—In an action to recover damages for breach of contract, the defendant third-party plaintiff appeals, as limited by its brief, from so much of an order of the Supreme Court, Nassau County (Wager, J.), dated May 21, 1992, as granted the branch of the third-party defendant's motion which was to dismiss the first cause of action in the third-party complaint pursuant to CPLR 3211 (a) (7).
Ordered that the order is affirmed insofar as appealed from, with costs.
The first cause of action pleaded in the third-party complaint seeks recovery in quasi contract based on the doctrine of unjust enrichment. However, the record indicates that the purported quasi contract arises "out of the same subject matter" (Clark-Fitzpatrick, Inc. v Long Is. R. R. Co., 70 NY2d 382, 388) governed by an enforceable written contract between the same parties, dated September 1, 1988. Under these circumstances, the first cause of action in the third-party complaint was properly dismissed (see, Clark-Fitzpatrick, Inc. v Long Is. R. R. Co., supra; Radio Today v Westwood One, 684 F Supp 68, 71-72; Chadirjian v Kanian, 123 AD2d 596; Nixon Gear & Mach. Co. v Nixon Gear, 86 AD2d 746). Thompson, J. P., Balletta, Rosenblatt and Florio, JJ., concur.