Case Name: Georgetown Mews Owners' Corp., Respondent, v. Campus Associates et al., Defendants, and Shanholt, Marinoff, Fleiss & Co., Appellant
Court: New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 2001-12-17
Citations: 289 A.D.2d 376
Docket Number: 
Parties: Georgetown Mews Owners’ Corp., Respondent, v Campus Associates et al., Defendants, and Shanholt, Marinoff, Fleiss & Co., Appellant.
Judges: 
Reporter: Appellate Division Reports
Volume: 289
Pages: 376–376

Head Matter:
Georgetown Mews Owners’ Corp., Respondent, v Campus Associates et al., Defendants, and Shanholt, Marinoff, Fleiss & Co., Appellant.
[734 NYS2d 874]

Opinion:
In an action to recover damages for breach of contract and professional malpractice, the defendant Shanholt, Marnioff, Fleiss & Co. appeals from so much of an order of the Supreme Court, Queens County (Milano, J.), dated February 14, 2001, as denied its motion for summary judgment dismissing the complaint insofar as asserted against it.
Ordered that the order is affirmed insofar as appealed from, with costs.
The plaintiff alleged that the appellant accounting firm of Shanholt, Marnioff, Fleiss & Co. conducted an audit which failed to account for late charges on a mortgage which eventually accrued a liability in excess of $1,000,000.
The Supreme Court correctly denied the appellant's motion for summary judgment, finding issues of fact as to whether the appellant departed from accepted standards of practice and whether any such departure was a proximate cause of the plaintiff's injury (see, Burke v Repetti & Co., 255 AD2d 483; Zuckerman v City of New York, 49 NY2d 557). O'Brien, J. P., Florio, Schmidt and Smith, JJ., concur.