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WOODSON v. MENDON LEASING CORPORATION

289 A.D.2d 158 (2001)

734 N.Y.S.2d 443

ZACHARY WOODSON, an Infant, by His Mother and Natural Guardian, TRACY WOODSON, et al., Appellants, v. MENDON LEASING CORPORATION et al., Defendants. AMERICAN TRANSIT INSURANCE COMPANY, Nonparty Respondent.

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

Decided December 20, 2001.

A complaint not verified by a person with personal knowledge of the substantive facts is pure hearsay with no evidentiary value, and the entry of a judgment based on such a complaint must be deemed a nullity (see, Feffer v Malpeso, 210 A.D.2d 60, 61). The court presented with the default judgment at issue here was entitled to have "some firsthand confirmation of the facts" (id....

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