Opinion
1290 CA 15-00908.
12-31-2015
J.N.K. MACHINE CORPORATION, Plaintiff, v. TBW, LTD., Woolschlager, Inc., and Bernard C. Woolschlager, Defendants. TBW, Ltd., Woolschlager, Inc., and Bernard C. Woolschlager, Third–Party Plaintiffs–Appellants, v. Pamela Lodestro, as Executor of the Estate of G. Marv Schuver, Third–Party Defendant, and Bart Schuver, Third–Party Defendant–Respondent.
Erickson Webb Scolton & Hajdu, Lakewood (Paul V. Webb, Jr., of Counsel), for Third–Party Plaintiffs–Appellants. Fessenden, Laumer & Deangelo, Jamestown (Charles S. Deangelo of Counsel), for Third–Party Defendant–Respondent.
Erickson Webb Scolton & Hajdu, Lakewood (Paul V. Webb, Jr., of Counsel), for Third–Party Plaintiffs–Appellants.
Fessenden, Laumer & Deangelo, Jamestown (Charles S. Deangelo of Counsel), for Third–Party Defendant–Respondent.
Opinion
MEMORANDUM:
In this breach of contract action, defendants-third-party plaintiffs (defendants) appeal from an order that granted the motion of third-party defendant Bart Schuver to dismiss the third-party complaint against him. We affirm. In a prior appeal, we affirmed an order denying defendants' motion seeking leave to amend their answer to include additional allegations in their counterclaim, concluding that the proposed amendment “improperly sought relief that was inconsistent with this Court's decision in the prior appeal” (J.N.K. Mach. Corp. v. TBW, Ltd., 98 A.D.3d 1259, 1260, 951 N.Y.S.2d 290). Inasmuch as the allegations and relief sought in the third-party complaint are substantially the same as the allegations and relief sought in defendants' proposed amended answer, we agree with Schuver that the third-party complaint also improperly seeks relief inconsistent with this Court's decision in the prior appeal. In any event, because the allegations in the third-party complaint allege that Schuver was acting as an agent for plaintiff, a disclosed principal, and there is no clear and explicit evidence of any intention by Schuver to “ ‘superadd his personal liability for, or to, that of [plaintiff]’ ” (Salzman Sign Co. v. Beck, 10 N.Y.2d 63, 67, 217 N.Y.S.2d 55, 176 N.E.2d 74; see Savoy Record Co. v. Cardinal Export Corp., 15 N.Y.2d 1, 4–6, 254 N.Y.S.2d 521, 203 N.E.2d 206; Jones v. Archibald, 45 A.D.2d 532, 534, 360 N.Y.S.2d 119), the third-party complaint also was properly dismissed for failure to state a cause of action against Schuver (see CPLR 3211[a]7 ).
It is hereby ORDERED that the order so appealed from is unanimously affirmed without costs.
SCUDDER, P.J., CENTRA, LINDLEY, VALENTINO, and WHALEN, JJ., concur.