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Six-Year Statute of Limitations for Reformation of Deed Exceeded, No Evidence the Exception to the Statute Applied

The Second Department determined the action to reform a deed (correction of alleged scrivener’s error) was time-barred. The six-year statute was exceeded and there was no proof the exception to the six-year statute applied:

A cause of action seeking reformation of an instrument on the ground of mistake, including an alleged scrivener’s error, is governed by the six-year statute of limitations pursuant to CPLR 213(6), which begins to run on the date the mistake was made … . However, “a well-recognized exception exists as to one who is in possession of real property under an instrument of title,’ whereby the statute of limitations never begins to run against his [or her] right to reform that instrument until he [or she] has notice of a claim adverse to his [or hers] under the instrument, or until his [or her] possession is otherwise disturbed'” … .

Here, the defendants established their prima facie entitlement to judgment as a matter of law by demonstrating that the alleged scrivener’s error occurred on August 8, 2005, and that the plaintiff did not commence this action until February 2013, more than six years after the alleged mistake … . In opposition, the plaintiff failed to raise a question of fact as to the applicability of the exception to the statute of limitations based on his alleged “possession of real property under an instrument of title” … . The plaintiff failed to submit any evidence with respect to whether or when he was in possession of the subject property. Lopez v Lopez, 2015 NY Slip Op 08389, 2nd Dept 11-18-15

 

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