Sayles v. G & G Hotels, Inc.

The opinion of the court was delivered by

FISHER, P.J.A.D.

In this appeal, we consider a dispute between defendant G & G Hotels, Inc. (G & G), and defendant Howard Johnson International, Inc. (HJI), triggered when Daniel O’Neill and Nicholas Sayles fell through a third-floor window of G & G’s Atlantic City hotel on September 16, 2006. That fall, which killed Sayles and seriously injured O’Neill, generated these consolidated suits and, ultimately, the summary judgment in favor of HJI on its contractual indemnification claim and other related rulings, which we now examine.

In 1995, G & G and HJI…