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No Conversion Action for Real Property; No Conversion Action Where Money Transferred Pursuant to Agreement

In affirming the dismissal of a complaint in which it was alleged the purchase of a building was induced by misrepresentations, the First Department noted there can be no action for conversion of real property, and there can be no action for conversion of money which was transferred pursuant to an agreement:

The motion court properly dismissed plaintiff’s sixth cause of action alleging conversion. As it accurately noted, to the extent plaintiff based that cause of action on an alleged conversion of its 7% fee interest in the premises, the claim must fail because a party may not sustain a claim for conversion of real property …. Similarly, while a party can properly assert a claim for conversion of money …the $2 million cannot be the subject of a conversion claim here. Even accepting the truth of the allegations in the complaint, plaintiff does not allege that defendants wrongfully exercised dominion over those funds in derogation of plaintiff’s ownership … [conversion is the unauthorized assumption and exercise of the right of ownership over goods belonging to another to the exclusion of the owner’s rights][internal citations omitted]). On the contrary, by alleging that it agreed to, and did, transfer the funds in return for the 7% interest in the property, plaintiff tacitly concedes that possession of the money was authorized. B & C Realty, co v 159 Emmut Props LLC, 3013 NY Slip Op 03913, 1st Dept, 5-30-13

 

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