GRASSO v. FIUMARA


167 A.D.2d 510 (1990)

Michele Grasso et al., Appellants, v. Raffaele Fiumara, Defendant, and Dime Savings Bank of New York et al., Respondents

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, Second Department.

November 26, 1990


Ordered that the judgment is affirmed, with costs.

The defendant bank and title insurance company were entitled to rely upon the statutory short-form power of attorney (see, General Obligations Law § 5-1501) presented to them by the defendant Fiumara, the plaintiffs' son-in-law, as that form was valid on its face and the circumstances surrounding its presentation would not have put a reasonable person on notice that something was amiss (cf.,

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