Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, 2002

Century Business Credit Corp. v. Muller

Century Business Credit Corp. v. Muller
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York · Decided December 5, 2002
300 A.D.2d 34; 751 N.Y.S.2d 20; 2002 N.Y. App. Div. LEXIS 11714
Century Business Credit Corp. v. Muller

Opinion of the Court

—Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Herman Cahn, J.), entered on or about April 5, 2001, which, inter alia, denied defendant N. Norman Muller’s motion pursuant to CPLR 5015 (a) (2) and (3) to vacate a prior judgment and prior order, unanimously affirmed, with costs.

Defendant’s “newly discovered” evidence consisted solely of facts which were previously known and argued, and therefore *35did not provide a basis for vacatur (see Richard B. v Sandra B.B., 209 AD2d 139, 144, lv dismissed 87 NY2d 861). In any event, the “new” evidence, which purported to show a failure or delay by plaintiff in declaring a default of the guarantees or underlying factoring agreements, would have been irrelevant since defendant Muller, a guarantor, explicitly waived all notices and demands of any kind, and the agreements specifically stated that a failure or delay in declaring a default would not operate as a waiver. Defendant Muller’s doctrine of the election of remedies argument is merely a restatement of his waiver argument, and to the extent it may be deemed a new theory, it does not constitute newly discovered evidence (see Matter of Laura W., 226 AD2d 126, 127). Concur — Williams, P.J., Ellerin, Rubin, Marlow and Gonzalez, JJ.

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