Case Name: Frank L. Ciminelli Construction Co., Inc., Appellant, v. City of Buffalo, Defendant, and Theodore A. Biggie, Jr., et al., Individually and Doing Business Under the Assumed Name and Style of Biggie-Shaflucas Architects, et al., Respondents. Clarence Materials Corp., Doing Business as Clarence Redi-Mix Concrete, Third-Party Plaintiff-Respondent, v. W. R. Grace & Company et al., Third-Party Defendants-Respondents. (And Another Third-Party Action.)
Court: New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1985-04-05
Citations: 110 A.D.2d 1075
Docket Number: Appeal No. 1
Parties: Frank L. Ciminelli Construction Co., Inc., Appellant, v City of Buffalo, Defendant, and Theodore A. Biggie, Jr., et al., Individually and Doing Business Under the Assumed Name and Style of Biggie-Shaflucas Architects, et al., Respondents. Clarence Materials Corp., Doing Business as Clarence RediMix Concrete, Third-Party Plaintiff-Respondent, v W. R. Grace & Company et al., Third-Party Defendants-Respondents. (And Another Third-Party Action.)
Judges: 
Reporter: Appellate Division Reports
Volume: 110
Pages: 1075–1076

Head Matter:
Frank L. Ciminelli Construction Co., Inc., Appellant, v City of Buffalo, Defendant, and Theodore A. Biggie, Jr., et al., Individually and Doing Business Under the Assumed Name and Style of Biggie-Shaflucas Architects, et al., Respondents. Clarence Materials Corp., Doing Business as Clarence RediMix Concrete, Third-Party Plaintiff-Respondent, v W. R. Grace & Company et al., Third-Party Defendants-Respondents. (And Another Third-Party Action.)
(Appeal No. 1.)

Opinion:
Defendant and third-party plaintiff Clarence has not appealed from the dismissal of its third-party complaint and, because a reversal of this dismissal is not necessary in order to give full relief to appellants here, we cannot as an appellate court reinstate the third-party complaint (see, Hecht v City of New York, 60 NY2d 57, 61-63). Clarence may, however, move at Special Term to vacate the dismissal pursuant to CPLR 5015 (a) (5); because the foundation for dismissal of the third-party complaint has been destroyed by our reinstatement of the complaint herein, such motion should be granted in the interest of justice (see, McMahon v City of New York, 105 AD2d 101; Feldberg v Howard Fulton St., 44 Misc 2d 218, affd 24 AD2d 704). (Appeal from order of Supreme Court, Erie County, Fudeman, J. — dismiss complaint.) Present — Hancock, Jr., J. P., Callahan, Doerr, Denman and O'Donnell, JJ.