Ordered that the order is affirmed, with costs.
The Supreme Court properly, in effect, converted the defendant's motion pursuant to CPLR 3211 (a) to dismiss the complaint into a motion for summary judgment dismissing the complaint, as both parties made it "unequivocally clear that they were laying bare their proof and deliberately charting a summary judgment course" (Jamison v Jamison,
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