National Center for Crisis Management, Inc. v. Lerner
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
1Opinion of the Court
“To establish a cause of action to recover damages for conversion, a plaintiff must show legal ownership or an immediate superior right of possession to a specific identifiable thing and must show that the defendant exercised an unauthorized dominion over the thing in question to the exclusion of the plaintiff’s rights” (Cusack v American Defense Sys., Inc., 86 AD3d 586, 587 [2011]; see Messiah’s Covenant Community *921Church v Weinbaum, 74 AD3d 916, 919 [2010]). “ ‘Tangible personal property or specific money must be involved’ ” (Batsidis v Batsidis, 9 AD3d 342, 343 [2004], quoting Independence…
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