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Service of an Unverified Petition in Violation of the Court of Claims Act Did Not Constitute a Jurisdictional Defect

Reversing the Court of Claims, the Second Department determined that service of a petition which was not verified was not a jurisdictional defect in a proceeding to recover money placed in escrow by the NYS Comptroller pending claims for the state’s appropriation and use of easements.

In accordance with the Eminent Domain Procedure Law, after the Attorney General determined that there was or might be a conflict with regard to the money allegedly owed as a result of the extended use of these temporary easements, the funds were deposited by the New York State Comptroller into a special interest-bearing eminent domain account (see EDPL 304[E][1]). Upon receiving notice of this deposit, the petitioner commenced this special proceeding for the distribution of the money pursuant to EDPL 304(E)(1) and Court of Claims Act § 23. The State promptly rejected the petition, noting that it was served without a proper verification. Within days, the petitioner provided the missing verification. The Court of Claims, however, dismissed the petition, concluding, inter alia, that the failure to comply with the statutory provisions requiring verification constituted a jurisdictional defect that mandated dismissal, without consideration of the merits. The petitioner appeals, and we reverse.

While the time limitations and service requirements set forth in Court of Claims Act §§ 10 and 11 have been referred to as “jurisdictional” … , the instant matter concerns a special proceeding pursuant to EDPL 304(E) for the distribution of money that had been deposited (see Court of Claims Act § 9[12]), and service of the petition without a verification did not constitute an incurable “jurisdictional” defect … . In this regard, the petitioner, upon notice from the State, cured the omission within a matter of days (see CPLR 3022, 3025[a]…). Moreover, considering that no substantive right of the State was prejudiced by the missing verification, even if the omitted material had not been supplied, the Court of Claims, under the circumstances presented to it, should have disregarded the technical infirmity pursuant to CPLR 2001 and 3026 … . Matter of Mazur Bros. Realty, LLC v State of New York, 2015 NY Slip Op 06149, 2nd Dept 7-15-15

 

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