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Ayala v. Lockheed Martin Corporation

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, First Department
Oct 25, 2005
22 A.D.3d 394 (N.Y. App. Div. 2005)

Opinion

6890.

October 25, 2005.

Order, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Anne E. Targum, J.), entered July 12, 2004, which, inter alia, dismissed as moot defendants-appellants' motion seeking summary judgment upon their third-party claim for indemnification, unanimously affirmed, with costs.

Steven L. Levitt Associates, P.C., Williston Park (James J. Daw, Jr. of counsel), for appellants.

Bivona Cohen, P.C., New York (Ian H. Kaufman of counsel), for respondent.

Before: Buckley, P.J., Saxe, Marlow, Ellerin and Williams, JJ.


Since the complaint in the main action had been dismissed, there was no surviving issue as to whether appellants were entitled to prevail on their third-party claim for indemnification. We note that even if attorneys' fees had been sought in the third-party complaint, they would not have been recoverable since the indemnitor's obligation to reimburse appellants for their attorneys' fees is not "unmistakably clear" from the relied-upon indemnity provision ( see Hooper Assoc. v. AGS Computers, 74 NY2d 487, 492; Utilisave Corp. v. Benjamin Shapiro Realty Co., 282 AD2d 403, lv denied 97 NY2d 677).


Summaries of

Ayala v. Lockheed Martin Corporation

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, First Department
Oct 25, 2005
22 A.D.3d 394 (N.Y. App. Div. 2005)
Case details for

Ayala v. Lockheed Martin Corporation

Case Details

Full title:DENNIS AYALA, Plaintiff, v. LOCKHEED MARTIN CORPORATION et al., Defendants…

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

Date published: Oct 25, 2005

Citations

22 A.D.3d 394 (N.Y. App. Div. 2005)
2005 N.Y. Slip Op. 7840
802 N.Y.S.2d 362

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