Resinol v. Valentine Dolls, Inc.
Decision Date | 14 November 1961 |
Citation | 220 N.Y.S.2d 884,14 A.D.2d 853 |
Parties | William RESINOL, individually and on behalf of himself and all other creditors of Bal Dolls, Inc., Plaintiff-Respondent, v. VALENTINE DOLLS, INC., Harry Lodmer and Ben Wolf, Defendants-Appellants, and Bal Dolls, Inc., and Davis Isacson, Defendants. |
Court | New York Supreme Court — Appellate Division |
D. H. Isacson, New York City, for defendants-appellants.
H. M. Krokow, New York City, for plaintiff-respondent.
Before RABIN, J. P., and McNALLY, STEVENS, EAGER and STEUER, JJ.
Order entered on December 15, 1960, unanimously modified on the law and on the facts to delete therefrom the second and fourth ordering paragraphs directing summary judgment against the defendants-appellants Lodmer and Wolf; and the judgment entered thereon, on December 20, 1960, modified upon the law and the facts to delete the first decretal paragraph thereof; motion by the plaintiffs for summary judgment against the said appellants denied; summary judgment directed in favor of the said appellants Lodmer and Wolf against the plaintiff dismissing the second cause of action and the complaint herein as against them with taxable costs; and said appellants are awarded $20 costs and disbursements of this appeal. N.Y.Jur. Vol. 10 'Contracts', § 239, pp. 160, 162. The written contract here, as we construe it, was not one whereby the appellants Lodmer and Wolf intended to or did assume any obligation directly to the creditors of Bal Dolls, Inc. The contract of the said appellants, upon its face, appears merely to have been intended as an indemnity and save harmless agreement in favor of Valentine Dolls, Inc. This being so, plaintiff, a creditor of Bal Dolls, Inc., may not recover upon the contract as a third party or donee beneficiary thereof. See, Snyder Plumbing & Heating Co. v. Purcell, 9 A.D.2d 505, 508, 195 N.Y.S.2d 780, 783; Skinner Bros. Mfg. Co., Inc. v. Shevlin E. Co., Inc., 231 App.Div. 656, 659, 248 N.Y.S. 380, 382, aff'd 257 N.Y. 562, 178 N.E. 795; Leary v. N. Y. Central R. Co., 212 App.Div. 689, 691, 209 N.Y.S. 575, 576; Weinbaum v. Algonquin Gas Transmission Co., 20 Misc.2d 276, 279, 132 N.Y.S.2d 128, 131, aff'd 285...
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