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SOLOMON HOLDING CORP., Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Peter GOLIA, et al., Defendants-Respondents, Sylvia Ann Rosenblatt, et al., Defendants.
Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Rolando T. Acosta, J.), entered August 21, 2007, which, in an action to foreclose a mortgage, denied plaintiff's motion for summary judgment and granted defendants-respondents' cross motion to amend their answer so as to add the affirmative defense of statute of limitations and, upon amendment, for summary judgment dismissing the complaint, unanimously affirmed, without costs.
On appeal, plaintiff does not argue that the statute of limitations had not run before commencement of the action, but only that defendants should not be permitted to invoke the statute of limitations because they did not plead it in their answer and then waited 19 months before finally seeking to interpose it. Plaintiff, however, does not show, or even claim, prejudice or surprise resulting directly from defendants' delay in asserting the statute of limitations. Absent such showing, defendants' cross motion to amend was properly granted (CPLR 3025[b]; see Seda v. New York City Hous. Auth., 181 A.D.2d 469, 581 N.Y.S.2d 20 [1992], lv. denied 80 N.Y.2d 759, 589 N.Y.S.2d 309, 602 N.E.2d 1125 [1992], citing, inter alia, Fahey v. County of Ontario, 44 N.Y.2d 934, 408 N.Y.S.2d 314, 380 N.E.2d 146 [1978] ).
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Decided: October 30, 2008
Court: Supreme Court, Appellate Division, First Department, New York.
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