Court Opinion

ID: 5803758
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-01-12 18:33:03.307541+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T08:42:39.768448
License: Public Domain

In an action on a lease and to recover damages for breach of that lease, plaintiff appeals from an order of the Supreme Court, Kings County, dated October 17, 1975, which denied its omnibus motion, with leave granted to renew at the trial that branch of the motion which sought leave to amend the complaint by increasing certain amounts claimed as damages. Order modified by adding thereto a provision that the denial of the branch of the motion which was for the assignment of this case to one Justice is denied, without prejudice to a renewal thereof upon a proper showing. As so modified, order affirmed, with $50 costs and disbursements to respondents. The merit of all of the plaintiffs claims is dependent upon a determination of the defendant’s affirmative defenses and counterclaims that plaintiff breached the lease by unreasonably withholding its consent to a subletting of the leased premises or to an assignment of the lease. These affirmative defenses and counterclaims present questions of fact. Thus, Special Term was correct in its denial of the branch of the motion which was for summary judgment and in its refusal to dismiss the affirmative defenses and counterclaims. We note that no good purpose would be served by granting the branch of the motion which sought amendment of the ad damnum clause; any such application should be made at the time of trial as the claimed damages will continue until that time. Plaintiffs request that defense counsel "be directed to attend for rulings” is so deficient in specificity that it cannot be considered. We note that a decision on a related motion may already have been made by another Supreme Court Justice. Finally, plaintiffs request for the assignment of one Justice to preside at all future *722proceedings in this case may be pursued, if it so chooses, by a motion at Special Term on a proper showing of a need therefor. Hopkins, Acting P. J., Latham, Christ and Hawkins, JJ., concur.