Queens Plaza Amusements, Inc. v. Queens Bridge Realty Corp.

*1058Although the action may have been beyond the limits of equity jurisdiction, as that term is ordinarily used, there was, nevertheless, jurisdiction in the court of equity to hear and determine the action; and the court erred in not retaining the claim for money damages. Jurisdiction, in its strict meaning, “imports only the power residing in a court to hear and determine an action,” and equity jurisdiction “ imports not the power to hear and decide, but the cases or occasions when that power will be exercised.” (People ex rel. Gaynor v. McKane, 78 Hun, 154, 163.) In equity jurisdiction does…