Westchester County v. Welton Becket Associates

Decision Date10 October 1985
Docket NumberNo. 2,No. 1,1,2
Citation66 N.Y.2d 642,495 N.Y.S.2d 364
Parties, 485 N.E.2d 1029 COUNTY OF WESTCHESTER, Respondent v. WELTON BECKET ASSOCIATES, et al., Respondents, et al., Defendants. (And Third- and Fourth-Party Actions.) (Action) J.R. STEVENSON CORP., Appellant, v. The COUNTY OF WESTCHESTER, Respondent, et al., Defendants. (And Third-, Fourth-, Fifth-Party Actions.) WELTON BECKET ASSOCIATES, et al., Sixth-Party Respondents, v. HOME INDEMNITY COMPANY, Sixth-Party Appellant. (Action) (And Two Other Actions.)
CourtNew York Court of Appeals Court of Appeals

Order affirmed, with costs, for reasons stated in the opinion by Justice William C. Thompson at the Appellate Division (102 A.D.2d 34, 478 N.Y.S.2d 305). Question certified answered in the affirmative.

WACHTLER, C.J., and JASEN, MEYER, SIMONS, KAYE, ALEXANDER and TITONE, JJ., concur.

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