Vasquez v. Zambrano, 196 A.D.2d 840 (N.Y. App. Div. 1993). · Go Syfert
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In any event, the plaintiffs may not obtain equitable relief, the only relief they seek, with unclean hands (see Hasegawa v Hasegawa, 290 AD2d 488, 489 [2002]; Vasquez v Zambrano, 196 AD2d 840, 840 [1993]; Cohn & Berk v Rothman-Goodman Mgt.
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Moreover, the doctrine of unclean hands also constitutes a bar to plaintiffs action (see Moo Wei Wong v Wong, 293 AD2d 387, 387 [2002]; Walker v Walker, 289 AD2d 225, 226 [2001]; Smith v Long, 281 AD2d 897, 898 [2001]; Vasquez v Zambrano, 196 AD2d 840, 840 [1993]; Lagonegro v Lagonegro, 187 AD2d 490, 491 [1992]; Ta Chun Wang v Chun Wong, 163 AD2d 300, 302 [1990], lv denied 77 NY2d 804 [1991], cert denied 501 US 1252 [1991]; Muscarella v Muscarella, 93 AD2d 993, 993 [1983]; Farino v Farino, 88 AD2d 902, 903 [1982]).
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Milta Vasquez
v.
Jorge Zambrano
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York.
Sep 20, 1993.
196 A.D.2d 840
Cited by 9 opinions  |  Published

In an action, inter alia, for partition, the plaintiff appeals, as limited by her notice of appeal and brief, from so much of a judgment of the Supreme Court, Nassau County (McCabe, J.), entered October 15, 1990, as, after a nonjury trial, dismissed the complaint and granted the defendant Jorge Zambrano judgment on his first counterclaim to impose a constructive trust upon the plaintiffs interest in the house.

Ordered that the judgment is modified, on the law, by deleting the third and fourth decretal paragraphs thereof, and adding thereto a provision dismissing Jorge Zambrano’s first counterclaim; as so modified, the judgment is affirmed insofar as appealed from, without costs or disbursements.

The plaintiff and the defendant Jorge Zambrano (hereinafter the defendant) defrauded a mortgage company by adding a third party to the contract of sale, the mortgage application, and the deed, in order to obtain a mortgage when purchasing a two-family house in Nassau County. After the closing, the parties then cohabited in the house for two years. The plaintiff vacated the house when the parties terminated their relationship. The plaintiff brought this action, seeking, inter alia, partition and sale of the house. In his first counterclaim, the defendant sought to have a constructive trust imposed upon the plaintiffs interest in the house. The Supreme Court dismissed the complaint and granted the defendant relief on this counterclaim.

Because both parties had unclean hands in connection with the purchase of this house, they are both barred from all equitable relief (see, Ta Chun Wang v Chun Wong, 163 AD2d 300, lv denied 77 NY2d 804, cert denied — US —, 111 S Ct 2893). Accordingly, the defendant’s first counterclaim is dismissed. Thompson, J. P., Sullivan, Ritter and Joy, JJ., concur.