Board of Managers of the Mews at North Hills Condominium v. Farajzadeh

OPINION OF THE COURT

Kenneth L. Gartner, J.

This motion compels this court to apply the criticized but controlling feudal concept of “independent covenants” to an action for unpaid condominium charges and assessments. This motion also raises a novel issue regarding the fundamental nature of this court’s jurisdiction: Where the amount sought by a plaintiff in a contract action although within this court’s jurisdictional limits when the action was commenced, has now grown to a sum in excess of this court’s usual jurisdictional level, may this court nonetheless enter a judgment by treating the…