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Norton v. Cohen

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, Second Department
Mar 9, 1998
248 A.D.2d 519 (N.Y. App. Div. 1998)

Opinion

March 9, 1998

Appeal from the Supreme Court, Nassau County (Burke, J.).


Ordered that the appeal from the order is dismissed, without costs or disbursements; and it is further,

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed, without costs or disbursements.

The appeal from the intermediate order must be dismissed because the right of direct appeal therefrom terminated with the entry of judgment in the action ( see, Matter of Aho, 39 N.Y.2d 241, 248). The issues raised on the appeal from the order are brought up for review and have been considered on the appeal from the judgment ( see, CPLR 5501 [a] [1]).

The plaintiff was bitten by a dog while purchasing gasoline at a gas station on Conduit Avenue in Brooklyn. The gas station was allegedly owned by the defendants Conduit Gas, Inc. and Mosha Cohen, and had a Getty Petroleum Corporation (hereinafter Getty) sign. The gas station purchased its gasoline from the defendant Petroleum Distributors, Inc. (hereinafter PDI), which obtained the gasoline from its supplier, Getty, pursuant to a distributor agreement. The plaintiff claimed, inter alia, that Getty had breached a duty of care owed to him pursuant to the terms of the distributor agreement.

The Supreme Court did not err in granting summary judgment to Getty. Once Getty presented a prima facie showing that it owed no duty of care to the plaintiff under the terms of the distributor agreement, the burden shifted to the plaintiff to offer admissible evidence sufficient to require a trial of any issue of fact ( see, CPLR 3212 [b]; Zuckerman v. City of New York, 49 N.Y.2d 557, 562). The plaintiff failed to establish that Getty inspected the premises or had any knowledge of the alleged dangerous condition at the gas station ( see, Ross v. Mobil Oil Corp., 173 A.D.2d 361; see also, Balsam v. Delma Eng'g Corp., 139 A.D.2d 292, 296). Furthermore, Getty's display of the Getty sign at the gas station is not a sufficient basis upon which to impose a duty of care ( see, Ross v. Mobil Oil Corp., supra; see also, Balsam v. Delma Eng'g Corp., supra).

The plaintiff's remaining contentions are without merit.

Copertino, J. P., Altman, Florio and Luciano, JJ., concur.


Summaries of

Norton v. Cohen

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, Second Department
Mar 9, 1998
248 A.D.2d 519 (N.Y. App. Div. 1998)
Case details for

Norton v. Cohen

Case Details

Full title:JAMES NORTON, Appellant, v. MOSHA COHEN et al., Defendants, and GETTY…

Court:Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, Second Department

Date published: Mar 9, 1998

Citations

248 A.D.2d 519 (N.Y. App. Div. 1998)
670 N.Y.S.2d 49

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