Court Opinion

ID: 5536060
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-01-10 18:21:45.451722+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T08:34:41.994068
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Wachtler, J.
(dissenting). I concur completely in Judge Kaye’s dissenting opinion. Even if this court were not comfortable with the limitation of liability and broad-based rationale first announced in Tobin v Grossman (24 NY2d 609) and consistently applied in our decisions until today, it should nevertheless resist the temptation to abandon or depart from that rule. The institutional stability of a court is more important than any desire to remedy what may be perceived as a harsh application of the rule in a given case.
Chief Judge Cooke and Judges Jasen and Meyer concur with Judge Jones; Judge Kaye dissents and votes to affirm in a separate opinion in which Judges Wachtler and Simons concur; Judge Wachtler dissents in a dissenting memorandum in which Judge Simons also concurs.
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