Levins v. Bucholtz

We allowed leave to appeal from the determination of the Appellate Term in this matter out of concern for the impression that may have been drawn from the opinion of the Appellate Term that a judgment of the Small Claims Part of the Municipal Court might rest entirely upon hearsay evidence and be beyond challenge on appeal on the ground that substantial justice had not been done according to the rules and principles of substantive law.

While the hearsay rule is a rule of evidence and the improper admissibility of hearsay evidence may not amount to a substantial injustice warranting a new…