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p. 1075Frank L. Ciminelli Construction Co., Inc., Appellant, v City of Buffalo, Defendant, and Theodore A. Biggie, Jr., et al., Individually and Doing Business Under the Assumed Name and Style of Biggie-Shaflucas Architects, et al., Respondents. Clarence Materials Corp., Doing Business as Clarence RediMix Concrete, Third-Party Plaintiff-Respondent, v W. R. Grace & Company et al., Third-Party Defendants-Respondents. (And Another Third-Party Action.) (Appeal No. 1.)
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Defendant and third-party plaintiff Clarence has not appealed from the dismissal of its third-party complaint and, because a reversal of this dismissal is not necessary in order to give full relief to appellants here, we cannot as an appellate court reinstate the third-party complaint (see, Hecht v City of New York, 60 NY2d 57 , 61-63). Clarence may, however, move at Special Term to vacate the dismissal pursuant to CPLR 5015 (a) (5); because the foundation for dismissal of the third-party complaint has been destroyed by our reinstatement of the complaint herein, such motion should be granted in the interest of justice (see, McMahon v City of New York, 105 AD2d 101 ; Feldberg v Howard Fulton St., 44 Misc 2d 218 , affd 24 AD2d 704 ). (Appeal from order of Supreme Court, Erie County, Fudeman, J. — dismiss complaint.) Present — Hancock, Jr., J. P., Callahan, Doerr, Denman and O’Donnell, JJ.
Cases cited
- Hecht v. City of New York 60 NY2d 57 at 61-63 p. 1076
- McMahon v. City of New York 105 AD2d 101 p. 1076
- Feldberg v. Howard Fulton St., Inc. 44 Misc 2d 218 p. 1076