Braun v. City of New York
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
1Opinion of the Court
Breitel, J. P.
These appeals involve the legal sufficiency
of identical third-party complaints in two wrongful death actions. The issue turns on whether one of the original defendants, Consolidated Edison, could be held liable under the tort complaints for a breach of its duty to plaintiffs’ decedents, for which it, in turn, could obtain indemnity from the third-party defendant, an electrical subcontractor, Hatzel & Buehler, for a breach of duty to it. Plaintiffs’ decedents in the tort actions had been, at the time of their deaths, employees of Hatzel & Buehler.
Special Term dismissed the…
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