| Velez v Division Nine Holding Corp. |
| 2008 NY Slip Op 05332 [52 AD3d 292] [52 AD3d 292] |
| June 10, 2008 |
| Appellate Division, First Department |
| Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431. |
| David Velez, Plaintiff, v Division Nine Holding Corp., Defendant. (And Third Party Actions.) Division Nine Holding Corp., Third Third-Party Plaintiff-Respondent, v Tully Construction Co., Inc., Third Third-Party Defendant-Appellant. |
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Molod Spitz & DeSantis, P.C., New York (Marcy Sonneborn of counsel), for
respondent.
Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Paul G. Feinman, J.), entered January 22, 2008, which denied third third-party defendant's motion for summary judgment dismissing that third-party complaint, unanimously affirmed, without costs.
The motion sought to avoid third-party liability by defeating plaintiff's claim against defendant/third third-party plaintiff. In order to obtain dismissal of the third third-party complaint by this means, third third-party defendant should have moved for summary judgment on both the third third-party complaint and the main complaint by putting all interested parties on notice that it was seeking dismissal of both. In the absence of a motion properly seeking dismissal of the main action by third third-party defendant or any other party, the court properly [*2]declined to search the record for that purpose (see Dunham v Hilco Constr. Co., 89 NY2d 425 [1996]; Bridgehampton Natl. Bank v Schaffner, 247 AD2d 351 [1998]). Concur—Tom, J.P., Mazzarelli, Gonzalez, Sweeny and DeGrasse, JJ. [See 18 Misc 3d 1122(A), 2008 NY Slip Op 50155(U).]