Court Opinion

ID: 5835570
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-01-12 22:37:24.950548+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T08:43:35.799645
License: Public Domain

Gulotta, J.,
dissents, in part, and votes to modify the order to the extent of denying plaintiffs’ motion for summary judgment as to their first cause of action and severing the same from their remaining cause, and, as so modified, to affirm the order, with the following memorandum: Although I am otherwise in agreement with my brethren in the majority, it is my belief that it cannot be said as a matter of law that the defendants or any of them, as is alleged in plaintiffs’ first cause of action, "caused a fire to be negligently started in an adjoining premises which fire was uncontrolled and spread upon the plaintiffs premises”, thus causing the destruction thereof. In my opinion, the presence or absence of negligence on the part of the defendants presents a triable issue of fact which is not present in the second cause of action sounding in intentional tort. In this latter cause the undisputed facts warrant summary judgment.