Case Name: Jorge Jerez, Appellant, v. City of New York et al., Respondents
Court: New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1997-11-13
Citations: 244 A.D.2d 188
Docket Number: 
Parties: Jorge Jerez, Appellant, v City of New York et al., Respondents.
Judges: 
Reporter: Appellate Division Reports
Volume: 244
Pages: 188–188

Head Matter:
Jorge Jerez, Appellant, v City of New York et al., Respondents.
[664 NYS2d 11]

Opinion:
—Order and judgment (one paper), Supreme Court, New York County (William McCooe, J.), entered January 7, 1997, which dismissed the petition seeking to recover $42,000 in United States currency vouchered with the Property Clerk of the New York City Police Department, unanimously affirmed, without costs.
The IAS Court properly dismissed the petition without a hearing, based upon the uncontested affidavits of two police officers establishing that they retrieved a bag containing the subject currency from the front seat of a livery cab and vouchered it as "found property" after petitioner, a passenger in the cab, disclaimed ownership of the bag or knowledge of its contents. In the present circumstances, petitioner failed to satisfy his burden of demonstrating entitlement to the money (Administrative Code of City of NY § 14-140 [f]). Concur—Sullivan, J. P., Milonas, Rosenberger and Williams, JJ.