BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF MAHA LAKSHMI MANDIR INC v. DUBEY (2008)

In an action, inter alia, for injunctive relief, the plaintiff appeals, as limited by its brief, from so much of an order of the Supreme Court, Queens County (Weiss, J.), entered March 26, 2007, as denied that branch of its motion which was to reject that portion of a Referee's report (Darche, R.), dated October 19, 2006, as, after a hearing, recommended that the court certify the candidates listed on the slate proposed by the defendant as the elected officers, committee members, and trustees of Maha Lakshmi Mandir, Inc., and confirmed that portion of the Referee's report.

ORDERED that the order is affirmed insofar as appealed from, with costs.

 “Where a referee's findings are supported by the record, the court should confirm the referee's report and adopt the recommendation made therein” (Shen v. Shen, 21 A.D.3d 1078, 1079, 803 N.Y.S.2d 579;  see Slater v. Links at N. Hills, 262 A.D.2d 299, 691 N.Y.S.2d 101).   Here, the record supports the referee's findings, including the determination that certain records offered by the plaintiff were not admissible under the business records exception to the hearsay rule (see CPLR 4518[a];  Matter of Leon RR, 48 N.Y.2d 117, 122, 421 N.Y.S.2d 863, 397 N.E.2d 374;  Johnson v. Lutz, 253 N.Y. 124, 170 N.E. 517;  Stock v. Otis El. Co., 52 A.D.3d 816, 861 N.Y.S.2d 722;  Whitfield v. City of New York, 48 A.D.3d 798, 853 N.Y.S.2d 117;  Hochhauser v. Electric Ins. Co., 46 A.D.3d 174, 844 N.Y.S.2d 374).   Accordingly, the Supreme Court properly confirmed that portion of the Referee's report that recommended that the court certify the candidates listed on the slate proposed by the defendant as the elected officers, committee members, and trustees of Maha Lakshmi Mandir, Inc.