Safeco Insurance Company v. Jamaica Water Supply Co.

Full title: SAFECO INSURANCE COMPANY OF AMERICA, Respondent, v. JAMAICA WATER SUPPLY…

Court: Court of Appeals of the State of New York

Date published: Nov 9, 1982

57 N.Y.2d 994 (N.Y. 1982)

457 N.Y.S.2d 245

443 N.E.2d 493

Opinion

Argued October 4, 1982

Decided November 9, 1982

Appeal from the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the Second Judicial Department, JOSEPH J. KUNZEMAN, J.

John R. O'Connor for appellant.

Terence M. Quinlan for respondent.

Order affirmed, with costs, for reasons stated in the opinion by former Justice JAMES D. HOPKINS at the Appellate Division ( 83 A.D.2d 427). Question certified answered in the affirmative.

Concur: Chief Judge COOKE and Judges JASEN, GABRIELLI, JONES, WACHTLER, FUCHSBERG and MEYER.