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SOUTHAMPTON COMMONS HOMEOWNERS ASSOCIATION, INC., appellant, v. SOUTHAMPTON ASSOCIATES, etc., et al., defendants second and third third-party plaintiffs-respondents, HAMPTON CLUB II ASSOCIATES, et al., defendant third-party plaintiffs, et al., defendants; EDWARD FLAX, third-party defendant; NELSON POPE TREATMENT PLANT OPERATORS, INC., second third-party defendant; ROBERT G. NELSON, et al., third-party defendants.

DECISION ORDER

ORDERED that the judgment is affirmed, with costs.

The plaintiff commenced this action to recover damages for breach of warranty claiming, inter alia, that the sponsor of a condominium complex, the respondent Southampton Associates (hereinafter the sponsor), breached its express and implied warranties to deliver to its condominium homeowners an operable and working sewage treatment plant that would meet permit criteria established by the Suffolk County Department of Health Services for nitrogen removal. The sponsor argued that the plant's failure was not caused by design defects, as the plaintiff alleged, but rather, by poor operation. After a nonjury trial, the court found that the evidence offered by the sponsor was more credible and persuasive than the evidence offered by the plaintiff, and judgment was entered in favor of the respondents.

The determination of a court after a nonjury trial will not be disturbed on appeal unless it is clear that its conclusions could not have been reached under any fair interpretation of the evidence (see, Lolik v. Big V Supermarkets, 86 N.Y.2d 744 ; Great Neck Obstetrics Gynecology v. Bellucci, 218 A.D.2d 782 ; Tarantino v. Vanguard Leasing Co., 187 A.D.2d 422 ; Nicastro v. Park, 113 A.D.2d 129 ). We find that the trial court's determination was supported by a fair interpretation of the evidence.

The plaintiff's remaining contentions are without merit.

SULLIVAN, J.P., LUCIANO, H. MILLER, and FEUERSTEIN, JJ., concur.

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SOUTHAMPTON COMMONS v. SOUTHAMPTON ASSOCIATES
(Jan 31, 2000)