JAMAICA SEVEN LLC v. BYFIELD (2020)

Supreme Court, Appellate Term, New York,

JAMAICA SEVEN, LLC, Appellant, v. Megan BYFIELD, Respondent.

2018-2218 Q C

Decided: June 26, 2020

PRESENT: : THOMAS P. ALIOTTA, P.J., BERNICE D. SIEGAL, WAVNY TOUSSAINT, JJ

Curtis Harger, Esq., for appellant. Megan Byfield, respondent pro se (no brief filed).

ORDERED that the judgment is affirmed, without costs.

Plaintiff commenced this small claims action to recover use and occupancy and other sums from defendant, its former tenant, who had been evicted from her apartment after a holdover summary proceeding. After a trial, the Civil Court awarded plaintiff $2,998, representing use and occupancy for June and July of 2017. Plaintiff appeals, on the ground of inadequacy, arguing that the court should have awarded use and occupancy for May of 2017 as well.

In a small claims action, our review is limited to a determination of whether "substantial justice has ․been done between the parties according to the rules and principles of substantive law" (CCA 1807; see CCA 1804; Ross v. Friedman, 269 AD2d 584 [2000]; Williams v. Roper, 269 AD2d 125 [2000]). Limiting our review to the arguments before us, we find no basis in the record to disturb the Civil Court's determination, and conclude that the judgment thus rendered substantial justice between the parties (see CCA 1804, 1807).

Accordingly, the judgment is affirmed.

ALIOTTA, P.J., SIEGAL and TOUSSAINT, JJ., concur.

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