Opinion
October 28, 1991
Appeal from the Supreme Court, Queens County (Graci, J.).
Ordered that the order is affirmed insofar as appealed from, with costs to the defendant-respondent.
From 1967 until 1979, Josephine DiMarco, M.D., and Roslyn Gardner, M.D., practiced obstetrics together at the same office in Queens, New York. The infant plaintiff, who was delivered by DiMarco, brought this action against DiMarco and Gardner both individually and as partners. Gardner successfully moved for dismissal of the causes of action asserted against her individually; however, the court refused, and correctly so, to dismiss the causes of action asserted against her grounded in her alleged vicarious liability as DiMarco's partner.
While many of the indicia of a partnership between Gardner and DiMarco do not appear to exist, the affidavits submitted in support of and in opposition to Gardner's motion present conflicting evidence sufficient to raise a question of fact as to the existence of either a partnership in fact or a partnership by estoppel and, therefore, summary judgment was correctly denied (see, Royal Bank Trust Co. v. Weintraub, Gold Alper, 68 N.Y.2d 124; Ahmad v. Ennab, 158 A.D.2d 637; Mayland v Craighead, 144 A.D.2d 344; Fogel v. Hertz Intl., 141 A.D.2d 375; Brodsky v. Stadlen, 138 A.D.2d 662; Fanelli v. Adler, 131 A.D.2d 631; Boyarsky v. Froccaro, 131 A.D.2d 710). Bracken, J.P., Harwood, Eiber and Rosenblatt, JJ., concur.