Seven Acre Wood St. Assocs. v Town of Bedford
2003 NYSlipOp 11369
Decided on February 18, 2003
Appellate Division, Second Department
This opinion is uncorrected and subject to revision before publication in the Official Reports.


Decided on February 18, 2003
SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK
APPELLATE DIVISION : SECOND JUDICIAL DEPARMENT Argued - January 15, 2003
FRED T. SANTUCCI, J.P.
SANDRA J. FEUERSTEIN
DANIEL F. LUCIANO
ROBERT W. SCHMIDT, JJ.
DECISION & ORDER

2002-01166

[*1]Seven Acre Wood Street Associates, Inc., appellant,

v

Town of Bedford, et al., respondents. (Index No. 10705/01)





Kenneth Heller, New York, N.Y., for appellant.
Keane & Beane, P.C., White Plains, N.Y. (Joel H. Sachs and
Eric L. Gordon of counsel), for
respondents Town of Bedford and
Town of Bedford Wetlands Control
Commission.
Lester Schwab Katz & Dwyer, LLP, New York, N.Y. (John
Sandercock and Steven B. [*2]
Prystowsky of counsel), for respondents
David M. Madden and Jennifer S.
Madden.

In an action, inter alia, to recover damages for trespass and nuisance, the plaintiff appeals from an order of the Supreme Court, Westchester County (Nastasi, J.), dated December 20, 2001, which denied its motion for a preliminary injunction.

ORDERED that the order is affirmed, with costs.

In support of its motion for a preliminary injunction, the plaintiff submitted an affirmation from an attorney who was the principal shareholder of the plaintiff corporation. The Supreme Court properly disregarded the affirmation, since the attorney should have submitted an affidavit (see CPLR 2106; Slavenburg Corp. v Opus Apparel, 53 NY2d 799, 801; Pisacreta v Minniti, 265 AD2d 540). The deficiency rendered the plaintiff's moving papers insufficient to support the relief requested.

In any event, the plaintiff failed to make the requisite showing for a preliminary injunction (see Doe v Axelrod, 73 NY2d 748, 750; Mosseri v Fried, 289 AD2d 545). Not only were the facts sharply disputed in this case, but the plaintiff failed to show that it was likely to succeed on the merits of its claims alleging trespass and nuisance
(see Copart Indus. v Consolidated Edison Co. of N.Y., 41 NY2d 564, 570; Kossoff v Rathgeb-Walsh, 3 NY2d 583, 589-590; Gollomp v Dubbs, 283 AD2d 550). Furthermore, the plaintiff was collaterally estopped from relitigating the issue of the installation of two culverts by the defendant Town of Bedford, since this issue was litigated previously in an action entitled Seven Acre Wood Street Assocs. v Wood, in the Supreme Court, Westchester County, under Index No. 16042/97, wherein a motion for a preliminary injunction involving the same culverts was denied, and the plaintiff had a full and fair opportunity to contest the prior determination (see Matter of Juan C. v Cortines, 89 NY2d 659, 667; Kaufman v Lilly & Co., 65 NY2d 449, 455).
SANTUCCI, J.P., FEUERSTEIN, LUCIANO and SCHMIDT, JJ., concur.

ENTER: [*3]

James Edward Pelzer

Clerk