Carlson v Porter
2008 NY Slip Op 06261 [53 AD3d 1135]
July 11, 2008
Appellate Division, Fourth Department
Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431.
As corrected through Wednesday, September 3, 2008


Michael J. Carlson, Sr., Individually and as Administrator of the Estate of Claudia D'Agostino Carlson, Deceased, Respondent, v William M. Porter et al., Defendants, and MVP Delivery et al., Appellants. (Appeal No. 3.)

—[*1] Goldberg Segalla LLP, Buffalo (Susan Van Gelder of counsel), for defendant-appellant MVP Delivery and Logistics, Inc.

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP, New York City (J. Peter Coll, Jr., of counsel), Chelus, Herdzik, Speyer, Monte & Pajak, P.C., Buffalo, Colvin Weaver & Cerniglia, LLC, New Orleans, La., for defendants-appellants Airborne, Inc., Airborne, Inc., Doing Business as Airborne Express, DHL International, Ltd. and DHL Worldwide Express.

Brown Chiari LLP, Lancaster (Janet D. Callahan of counsel), for plaintiff-respondent.

Appeals from an order of the Supreme Court, Niagara County (Richard C. Kloch, Sr., A.J.), entered June 14, 2007. The order denied the motions of defendants MVP Delivery and Logistics, Inc., Airborne, Inc., Airborne, Inc., doing business as Airborne Express, DHL International, Ltd., and DHL Worldwide Express to set aside the verdict and for dismissal of the complaint against them.

It is hereby ordered that said appeals are unanimously dismissed without costs (see Smith v Catholic Med. Ctr. of Brooklyn & Queens, 155 AD2d 435 [1989]; see also CPLR 5501 [a] [1], [2]). Present—Centra, J.P., Lunn, Peradotto, Green and Pine, JJ.