Court Opinion

ID: 6073252
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-01-13 17:20:13.770602+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T08:53:00.244943
License: Public Domain

—Order unanimously affirmed without costs. Memorandum: Supreme Court properly denied the motion of third-party defendant to dismiss the third-party complaint on the ground of release, without prejudice to renew the motion following discovery into *974the circumstances surrounding the negotiation and execution of the release (see, Best v Yutaka, 90 NY2d 833, 834). Given the timing of the release and the circumstances surrounding its execution, in particular, the state of the parties’ knowledge at that time, the actual controversy or dispute within the parties’ contemplation, and the consideration exchanged for the release (see, Best v Yutaka, supra, at 834; Cahill v Regan, 5 NY2d 292, 299-300; Gibli v Kadosh, 279 AD2d 35, 38-40; Stone v Aronwald & Pykett, 275 AD2d 706, 707), we conclude that there are questions of fact with regard to the issues of mutual mistake and the parties’ intent in entering into the release. (Appeal from Order of Supreme Court, Monroe County, Lunn, J. — Dismiss Pleading.) Present — Pigott, Jr., P. J., Wisner, Hurl-butt, Kehoe and Burns, JJ.