Unclaimed Property Recovery Service, Inc. v. Chase Manhattan Bank

In an action, inter alia, to recover damages for breach of contract, the plaintiff appeals from an order of the Supreme Court, Queens County (Golar, J.), dated October 7, 2004, which granted the defendant’s cross motion for summary judgment dismissing the complaint, and denied, as academic, its motion to strike the defendant’s answer.

Ordered that the order is affirmed, with costs.

The plaintiff is a corporation that facilitates the collection of unclaimed property. The plaintiff entered into agreements with the predecessors of the defendant bank to recover unclaimed property held by the New…