Case Name: Dennis P. Brennan, as Trustee of the Health Benefits Fund of the Detectives' Endowment Association, Police Department of the City of New York, Inc., and as Trustee of the Retirees' Health & Welfare Fund of the Detectives' Endowment Association of the City of New York, Inc., Appellant, v. Philip Caruso, as Trustee of the Patrolmen's Benevolent Association Securities Benefit Fund and Retirees' Benefit Fund, Respondent
Court: New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1985-02-14
Citations: 108 A.D.2d 634
Docket Number: 
Parties: Dennis P. Brennan, as Trustee of the Health Benefits Fund of the Detectives’ Endowment Association, Police Department of the City of New York, Inc., and as Trustee of the Retirees’ Health & Welfare Fund of the Detectives’ Endowment Association of the City of New York, Inc., Appellant, v Philip Caruso, as Trustee of the Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association Securities Benefit Fund and Retirees’ Benefit Fund, Respondent.
Judges: 
Reporter: Appellate Division Reports
Volume: 108
Pages: 634–636

Head Matter:
Dennis P. Brennan, as Trustee of the Health Benefits Fund of the Detectives’ Endowment Association, Police Department of the City of New York, Inc., and as Trustee of the Retirees’ Health & Welfare Fund of the Detectives’ Endowment Association of the City of New York, Inc., Appellant, v Philip Caruso, as Trustee of the Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association Securities Benefit Fund and Retirees’ Benefit Fund, Respondent.

Opinion:
Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Taylor, J.), entered October 24, 1983, which dismissed the complaint for failure to state a cause of action, affirmed, without costs and disbursements.
We affirm for the reasons stated by Justice Taylor. We would only add that plaintiff funds' voluntary withdrawal from the Patrolmen's Benevolent Association's Health & Welfare Fund was not a mutual disassociation by two contracting parties, as argued by the dissent. When plaintiffs unilaterally left the fund they relinquished all rights in the surplus, and any "windfall" is of their own choosing. Concur — Murphy, P. J., Kupferman and Sullivan, JJ.