Marinelli v. K-Mart Corp.

• Decision Date: 23 February 2000
• Citation: 162 N.J. 516,745 A.2d 508
• Parties: Dominic MARINELLI, a minor by and through his mother and Guardian ad Litem Anne Marie MARINELLI and Anne Marie Marinelli, individually, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. K-MART CORPORATION, Kyle Ford, John McDonough and Sean McDonough, jointly, severally and/or in the alternative, Defendants-Respondents, and Ray Clerk, (a fictitious named employee of the defendant K-Mart Corporation), Defendant.
• Court: New Jersey Supreme Court

745 A.2d 508

162 N.J. 516

Dominic MARINELLI, a minor by and through his mother and Guardian ad Litem Anne Marie MARINELLI and Anne Marie Marinelli, individually, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. K-MART CORPORATION, Kyle Ford, John McDonough and Sean McDonough, jointly, severally and/or in the alternative, Defendants-Respondents, and Ray Clerk, (a fictitious named employee of the defendant K-Mart Corporation), Defendant.

Supreme Court of New Jersey.

Argued January 4, 2000.

Decided February 23, 2000.

Vincent J. Ciecka, Pennsauken, for plaintiffs-appellants.

James D. Butler, Jersey City, for defendant-respondent Kyle Ford (Mr. Butler, attorney; Jeffrey Marder, on the brief).

Tricia E. Habert, for defendant-respondent John McDonough (Crawshaw, Mayfield, Turner, O'Mara, Donnelly & McBride, Cherry Hill, attorneys).

Timothy J. Galanaugh, Haddonfield, for defendant-respondent Sean McDonough (Murphy and O'Connor, attorneys).

Thomas D. Monte, Jr., Sea Girt, for defendant-respondent K-Mart Corporation (Monte, Sachs & Borowsky, attorneys).

PER CURIAM.

The judgment is affirmed, substantially for the reasons expressed in Judge Stern's opinion of the Appellate Division, reported at 318 N.J.Super. 554, 724 A.2d 806 (1999).

For affirmance—Chief Justice PORITZ and Justices O'HERN, GARIBALDI, STEIN, COLEMAN, LONG and VERNIERO—7.

Opposed—None.