Case Name: Phyllis Pasqua, Respondent, v. Grace Pasqua, Appellant. (Action No. 1.); Grace Daniel Realty Corp. et al., Appellants, v. Phyllis Pasqua, Individually and as Trustee of a Trust Created by Daniel Pasqua, Deceased, et al., Respondents, et al., Defendants. (Action No. 2.)
Court: New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1995-02-02
Citations: 212 A.D.2d 356
Docket Number: 
Parties: Phyllis Pasqua, Respondent, v Grace Pasqua, Appellant. (Action No. 1.) Grace Daniel Realty Corp. et al., Appellants, v Phyllis Pasqua, Individually and as Trustee of a Trust Created by Daniel Pasqua, Deceased, et al., Respondents, et al., Defendants. (Action No. 2.)
Judges: 
Reporter: Appellate Division Reports
Volume: 212
Pages: 356–357

Head Matter:
Phyllis Pasqua, Respondent, v Grace Pasqua, Appellant. (Action No. 1.) Grace Daniel Realty Corp. et al., Appellants, v Phyllis Pasqua, Individually and as Trustee of a Trust Created by Daniel Pasqua, Deceased, et al., Respondents, et al., Defendants. (Action No. 2.)
[622 NYS2d 34]

Opinion:
—Order, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Howard Silver, J.), entered September 9, 1994, which granted plaintiffs motion to withdraw her demand for jury trial or to treat such demand as a nullity, unanimously affirmed, without costs.
There is no right to a jury trial here, the essence of plaintiffs action and defendant's counterclaims involving their respective rights to the corpus of a trust being equitable in nature (see, Magill v Dutchess Bank & Trust Co., 150 AD2d 531, 531-532), and defendant's incidental request for money damages does not require otherwise (see, Homburger v Levitin, 140 AD2d 583, 584, lv denied 73 NY2d 701). Concur—Sullivan, J. P., Ellerin, Ross, Asch and Williams, JJ.