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· 7/7/1994

Leon v. Martinez

Citations

  • 638 N.E.2d 511
  • 84 N.Y.2d 83
  • 614 N.Y.S.2d 972
  • 1994 N.Y. LEXIS 1437

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  • noting the Complaint is given the benefit of every possible favorable inference and that any documentary evidence presented must conclusively refute the Plaintiff's claims
  • noting that New York law does not require any particular phraseology to effect an assignment, “it is only required that there be a perfected transaction between the assignor and assignee, intended by those parties to vest in the assignee a present right in the things assigned”
  • Finding in the context of a motion to dismiss that a third party might be “entitled” to funds where the “client has conveyed a right to [the] funds by an enforceable assignment”
  • “An assignment may properly relate to a future or conditional right which is adequately identified”
  • \An assignment may properly relate to a future ... right which is adequately identified....\
  • dismissal denied since copies of checks and bank statements did not conclusively refute loan default

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Judges: Levine

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