Shankman v. Con Edison

• Decision Date: 17 April 1979
• Citation: 420 N.Y.S.2d 960,99 Misc.2d 956
• Parties: Harold SHANKMAN, Respondent, v. CON EDISON, Appellant.
• Court: New York Supreme Court

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420 N.Y.S.2d 960

99 Misc.2d 956

Harold SHANKMAN, Respondent, v. CON EDISON, Appellant.

Supreme Court, Appellate Term, Second and Eleventh Districts.

April 17, 1979.

Ernest J. Williams and Joseph J. Klem, New York City, for appellant.

Rosengarten & Weinreich, New York City (Howard B. Weinreich, New York City, of counsel), for New York State Food Merchants Ass'n, Inc., amicus curiae.

B. Robert Piller and Jill Kupferberg, New York City, for Public Utility Law Project, amicus curiae.

Before PINO, P. J., and BUSCHMANN and WEINSTEIN, JJ.

PER CURIAM.

Appeal from order (see 94 Misc.2d 150, 404 N.Y.S.2d 787) dismissed without costs.

The denial of defendant's motion to dismiss for failure to make out a prima facie case is a ruling made during the course of the trial and is not appealable either as of right or by permission (CCA § 1702, see Covell v. M.R.H. Constr. Corp., 17 N.Y.2d 709, 269 N.Y.S.2d 718, 216 N.E.2d 710, aff'g 24 A.D.2d 566, 262 N.Y.S.2d 370, Richardson v. Wengatz, 33 A.D.2d 947, 306 N.Y.S.2d 1018). However, were the appeal properly before us, we would be inclined to reverse (see LoVico v. Consolidated Edison Co., App.Div., 420 N.Y.S.2d 825 decided herewith).

PINO, P. J., and BUSCHMANN, J., concur.

WEINSTEIN, J., taking no part.