Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, 1985

Caton v. Doug Urban Construction Co.

Caton v. Doug Urban Construction Co.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York · Decided March 1, 1985
109 A.D.2d 1100; 487 N.Y.S.2d 218; 1985 N.Y. App. Div. LEXIS 47597
Caton v. Doug Urban Construction Co.

Opinion of the Court

— Order unanimously reversed, on the law, with costs, and motion granted. Memorandum: Special Term erred in denying defendant’s motion for summary judgment. This is an action for common-law indemnity by plaintiffs, who had previously paid a default judgment *1101taken against them in an action by a person who had fallen off the roof of plaintiffs’ house. As a result of plaintiffs’ failure to respond adequately to defendant’s interrogatories, plaintiffs were precluded from establishing the reasonableness of the amount of the default judgment, a necessary element of its cause of action (see, Depo v Marine Midland Bank, 79 AD2d 846, affd 54 NY2d 943; Le Frois Foods Corp. v Policy Advancing Corp., 59 AD2d 1013). (Appeal from order of Supreme Court, Genesee County, Mintz, J. — summary judgment.) Present — Hancock, Jr., J. P., Doerr, Boomer, Green and O’Donnell, JJ.

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