Legal Opinion
Rivas v. McDonnell
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Decided September 29, 2003PublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
—In an action, inter alia, pursuant to RPAPL article 15 to quiet title to real property, the plaintiff appeals from an order of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Douglass, J.), dated October 16, 2002, which denied her motion for summary judgment.
Ordered that the order is reversed, on the law, with costs, the motion is granted, and the matter is remitted to the Supreme Court, Kings County, for further proceedings consistent herewith.
The New York Recording Act (Real Property Law § 290 et *573seq.) protects a good faith purchaser for value from a prior unrecorded interest in real property provided,…
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