New York Court of Appeals, 1978

Brooklyn Hospital v. Lennon

New York Court of Appeals · Decided September 14, 1978

45 N.Y.2d 820; 381 N.E.2d 608; 409 N.Y.S.2d 210; 1978 N.Y. LEXIS 2244

Opinion of the Court

The court takes this occasion to restate the rule that denial of a motion for leave to appeal is not equivalent to an *821affirmance and has no precedential value (see, e.g., Matter of Marchant v Mead-Morrison Mfg. Co., 252 NY 284, 297-298).

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