SCHELLHORN v. NEW YORK STATE ELEC. & GAS CORP.


283 A.D. 678 (1954)

Henry N. Schellhorn, Plaintiff, v. New York State Electric and Gas Corp., Defendant and Third-Party Plaintiff-Respondent. Judge Neon Sign Co., Inc., Third-Party Defendant-Appellant

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, Third Department.

January 27, 1954.


The main complaint may be construed as charging the third-party plaintiff, an electric power company, with passive as well as active negligence resulting in plaintiff's injury. In a situation in which the main complaint may be construed as charging the third-party plaintiff with passive negligence, even though it also charges him with active negligence, it has been the policy of this court not to dismiss such a complaint, but to leave the question of liability over until...

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