Court Opinion

ID: 5714108
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-01-12 15:58:17.369932+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T08:40:35.170986
License: Public Domain

Order unanimously reversed, with $20 costs and disbursements to the appellant, and the motion to dismiss the third-party complaint on the ground of insufficiency is granted, with $10 costs. A reading of the complaint, as well as the third-party pleading, requires the conclusion that the third-party plaintiff, if liable at all, can only be held responsible as an active or primary tort-feasor. Under the circumstances a judgment over could not be sustained. (See Putvin v. Buffalo Elec. Co., 5 N Y 2d 447, 456-457.) Concur —Rabin, J. P., M. M. Frank, Valente, McNally and Stevens, JJ.