Howard v. Weaver

—Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Lewis Friedman, J.), entered July 5, 1996, which granted defendants-respondents’ motions to dismiss the complaint as against them for failure to state a cause of action, unanimously affirmed, without costs.

The IAS Court properly applied the doctrine of caveat emptor (see, Stambovsky v Ackley, 169 AD2d 254, 257; East 15360 Corp. v Provident Loan Socy., 177 AD2d 280, 281) in holding that defendant sellers did not commit an actionable fraud in representing that the apartments in question were registered with the Division of Housing and Community Renewal as…