State of New York v Kear
2011 NY Slip Op 03445 [83 AD3d 1565]
April 29, 2011
Appellate Division, Fourth Department
Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431.
As corrected through Wednesday, June 8, 2011


—State of New York, Respondent, v Terry Kear et al., Respondents, and Griffith Oil Co., Inc., Appellant.

[*1] Trevett Cristo Salzer & Andolina P.C., Rochester (Amanda R. Insalaco of counsel), for defendant-appellant.

Eric T. Schneiderman, Attorney General, Albany (Kathleen M. Arnold of counsel), for plaintiff-respondent.

Phillips Lytle LLP, Buffalo (Kevin M. Hogan of counsel), for defendant-respondent Sandberg Oil Co., Inc.

Appeal from an order of the Supreme Court, Allegany County (Thomas P. Brown, A.J.), entered March 18, 2010. The order denied the motion of defendant Griffith Oil Co., Inc. for summary judgment dismissing the complaint and cross claims against it.

It is hereby ordered that the order so appealed from is unanimously affirmed without costs. Present—Scudder, P.J., Centra, Carni, Sconiers and Green, JJ.