Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, 2003

Learner v. American Federation of Musicians of the United States & Canada

Learner v. American Federation of Musicians of the United States & Canada
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York · Decided April 8, 2003
304 A.D.2d 370; 756 N.Y.S.2d 848; 2003 N.Y. App. Div. LEXIS 3757
Learner v. American Federation of Musicians of the United States & Canada

Opinion of the Court

Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Marylin Diamond, J.), entered February 22, 2002, which, in an action for breach of severance agreements, denied plaintiff employees’ motion for summary judgment and granted defendant employer’s cross motion for summary judgment dismissing the complaint, unanimously affirmed, without costs.

The motion court correctly held that defendant’s former president, for whom plaintiff's worked as assistants and whose term of office was expiring, lacked apparent authority to enter into the subject severance agreements (see Arol Dev. Corp. v Whitman & Ransom, 215 AD2d 145, 146 [1995]). Concur — Mazzarelli, J.P., Sullivan, Ellerin, Lerner and Marlow, JJ.

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