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123 CUTTING CO., INC., ET AL., plaintiffs, v. TOPCOVE ASSOCIATES, INC., ET AL., defendants. (ACTION NO. 1) POSITIVE INFLUENCE FASHION, INC., plaintiff, TOPCOVE ASSOCIATES, INC., appellant, CITY OF NEW YORK, defendant, CONSOLIDATED EDISON COMPANY, ET AL., respondents. (ACTION NO. 2) (AND ANOTHER ACTION).

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ORDERED that the judgment is affirmed, with costs.

The Supreme Court properly granted those branches of the separate motions of Consolidated Edison Company of New York, Inc., s/h/a Consolidated Edison Company and Ward Mechanical Corp., defendants in Action No. 2, inter alia, for summary judgment dismissing the complaint in that action insofar as asserted by the appellant Topcove Associates, Inc., against them based on lack of capacity to sue. When the appellant filed for bankruptcy pursuant to Chapter 11 of the United States Bankruptcy Code in or about September 2000, more than five years after it commenced Action No. 2, it failed to list that action as an asset in its bankruptcy petition. "[I]t is well settled that a debtor's failure to list a legal claim as an asset in his or her bankruptcy proceeding causes the claim to remain the property of the bankruptcy estate and precludes the debtor from pursuing the claim on his or her own behalf" ( George Strokes Elec. Plumbing, Inc. v. Dye, 240 A.D.2d 919, 920; see Dynamics Corp. Of Am. v. Marine Midland Bank-N.Y., 69 N.Y.2d 191, 196-197; Matter of First Montauk Sec. Corp. v. Chiulli, 245 A.D.2d 507). We note that this rule applies to Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings ( see Hart Sys. v. Arvee Sys., 244 A.D.2d 527; Cafferty v. Thompson, 223 A.D.2d 99), as well as to Chapter 7 proceedings ( see George Strokes Elec. Plumbing, Inc. v. Dye, supra).

The appellant's remaining contention is without merit.

PRUDENTI, P.J., SMITH, FRIEDMANN and H. MILLER, JJ., concur.

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123 CUTTING CO. INC. v. TOPCOVE ASSOCIATES
(Dec 15, 2003)