5th Avenue Chocolatiere, Ltd. v. 540 Acquisition Co.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
Ellerin, J.
This case and the companion case of 532 Madison Ave. Gourmet Foods v Finlandia Ctr. (271 AD2d 49 [decided herewith]) demonstrate the inappropriateness of rigidly extending a legal principle that had its genesis in contract law to a factual predicate that involves completely different juridical relationships.
While the facts and extent of the lack of care by defendants which gave rise to the harm suffered by plaintiffs are more fully and graphically detailed in Justice Mazzarelli’s opinion in the companion case of 532 Madison Ave. Gourmet Foods (supra), in which I…
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