Barreiros v. JJR Associates, Inc.

In an action to recover damages for personal injuries, the third-party defendant appeals from so much of an order of the Supreme Court, Suffolk County (Tanenbaum, J.), dated June 25, 2002, as denied its motion for summary judgment dismissing the third-party complaint.

Ordered that the order is reversed insofar as appealed from, on the law, with costs, the motion is granted, and the third-party complaint is dismissed.

The third-party defendant met its burden of proving, by competent admissible evidence (see Gaddy v Eyler, 79 NY2d 955 [1992]; Fitzpatrick v Chase Manhattan Bank, 285 AD2d 487…