STANDARD BRANDS INC. v. ARLEN TROPHY CO., INC.


3 A.D.2d 1010 (1957)

Standard Brands Incorporated et al., Plaintiffs, v. Arlen Trophy Co., Inc., Defendant and Third-Party Plaintiff-Respondent. Plybridge Corp., Third-Party Defendant-Appellant

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, First Department.

June 25, 1957


The wrong plaintiffs plead in their complaint for damage to their property from flooding is that third-party plaintiff turned on a faucet and permitted it to overflow on the floor in premises which it occupied and controlled. The third-party complaint does not plead a valid cause of action over against the landlord as third-party defendant within the active-passive theory of liability for tort. When the pleadings are read together a joint tort between third-party plaintiff...

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