Hilltop Village Cooperative No. 4, Inc. v. Kessler

Majority

p. 957

Hilltop Village Cooperative No. 4, Inc., Appellant, v. Sidney Kessler et al., Individually and as Copartners Doing Business as Kessler-Wohl Associates, et al., Defendants and Third-Party Plaintiffs-Respondents. H & M Concrete Corp. et al., Third-Party Defendants.

In our opinion, the affirmative defense was sufficient as a matter of law (cf. Capitol Wine & Spirit Corp. v. Pokrass, 277 App. Div. 184 , 187, affd. 302 N. Y. 734 ; Diamond v. Diamond, 307 N. Y. 283 , 266-267). Issues of fact, however, were presented which precluded the granting of summary judgment. Those issues included the questions of whether defendants had remedied the defects which had been listed by the occupant-shareholders; whether the defects so listed differed from those set forth in the challenged subdivisions of paragraph eleventh of the complaint; whether the occupants waived all defects other than those which they had listed (cf. Alsens A. P. C. Works v. Degnon Contr. Co., 222 N. Y. 34 , 37-38; Werking v. Amity Estates, 2 N Y 2d 43 , 52); and whether plaintiff was damaged by reason of the defects alleged in the challenged subdivisions of the complaint. Ughetta, Acting P. J., Christ, Brennan, Rabin and Hopkins, JJ., concur.

Cases cited

Capitol Wine & Spirit Corp. v. Pokrass 302 N. Y. 734 N.Y. 1951-04-12 p. 957
Alsens American Portland Cement Works v. Degnon Contracting Co. 222 N. Y. 34 N.Y. 1917-11-27 at 37-38 p. 957
Werking v. Amity Estates, Inc. 2 N Y 2d 43 N.Y. 1956-07-11 at 52 p. 957