Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, 2001

Rebecca Moss, Ltd. v. 540 Acquisition Co.

Rebecca Moss, Ltd. v. 540 Acquisition Co.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York · Decided July 26, 2001
285 A.D.2d 416; 728 N.Y.S.2d 371; 2001 N.Y. App. Div. LEXIS 7665
Rebecca Moss, Ltd. v. 540 Acquisition Co.

Opinion of the Court

—Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Phyllis GangelJacob, J.), entered June 29, 1999, which, to the extent appealed from, granted respondents’ motion to dismiss the complaint, unanimously affirmed, without costs.

Plaintiff’s causes of action for negligence and private nuisance must be dismissed because it may not recover damages for negligently caused financial harm without accompanying physical injury or for private nuisance absent intentional acts on defendants’ part (532 Madison Ave. Gourmet Foods v Finlandia Ctr., 96 NY2d 280, 291-292). The cause of action for public nuisance must be dismissed because plaintiff failed to plead that its damages were different from those sustained by the general public (id. at 292-293). Concur — Sullivan, P. J., Nardelli, Ellerin, Lerner and Friedman, JJ.

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