Case Name: Niagara Frontier Transportation Authority, Appellant, v. Hartford Insurance Company, Respondent
Court: New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1994-12-23
Citations: 210 A.D.2d 970
Docket Number: 
Parties: Niagara Frontier Transportation Authority, Appellant, v Hartford Insurance Company, Respondent.
Judges: 
Reporter: Appellate Division Reports
Volume: 210
Pages: 970–970

Head Matter:
Niagara Frontier Transportation Authority, Appellant, v Hartford Insurance Company, Respondent.
[621 NYS2d 967]

Opinion:
—Judgment unanimously modified on the law and as modified affirmed without costs in accordance with the following Memorandum: Supreme Court erred in granting defendant's cross motion for summary judgment. Defendant failed to meet its initial burden of showing that plaintiff's employee, Emmett Turner, was a seaman within the meaning of the Jones Act (46 USC, Appendix § 688), and thus failed to establish its entitlement to judgment as a matter of law (see, Zuckerman v City of New York, 49 NY2d 557, 562; Salgado v Rudolph Corp., 514 F2d 750, 755; Harney v Moore Bldg. Corp., 359 F2d 649, 654). (Appeal from Judgment of Supreme Court, Erie County, Flaherty, J.—Declaratory Judgment.) Present— Pine, J. P., Lawton, Fallon, Davis and Boehm, JJ.