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p. 356Phyllis Pasqua, Respondent, v Grace Pasqua, Appellant. (Action No. 1.) Grace Daniel Realty Corp. et al., Appellants, v Phyllis Pasqua, Individually and as Trustee of a Trust Created by Daniel Pasqua, Deceased, et al., Respondents, et al., Defendants. (Action No. 2.) [622 NYS2d 34]
—Order, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Howard Silver, J.), entered September 9, 1994, which granted plaintiffs motion to withdraw her demand for jury trial or to treat such demand as a nullity, unanimously affirmed, without costs.
There is no right to a jury trial here, the essence of plaintiffs action and defendant’s counterclaims involving their respective rights to the corpus of a trust being equitable in nature (see, Magill v Dutchess Bank & Trust Co., 150 AD2d 531 , 531-532), and defendant’s incidental request for money
p. 357
damages does not require otherwise (see, Homburger v Levitin, 140 AD2d 583 , 584, lv denied 73 NY2d 701 ). Concur—Sullivan, J. P., Ellerin, Ross, Asch and Williams, JJ.
Cases cited
- Magill v. Dutchess Bank & Trust Co. 150 AD2d 531 at 531-532 p. 356
- Homburger v. Levitin 140 AD2d 583 at 584 p. 357