The IAS court erred in its failure to dismiss Isaacson's indemnity/contribution cross claim against defendants-appellants. Both defendants-appellants and Isaacson owed plaintiff independent, non-delegable duties of care. "When two tort-feasors neither act in concert nor contribute concurrently to the same wrong, they are not joint tort-feasors; rather, their wrongs are independent and successive" (Suria v Shiffman,
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