PHILIPP BROS. v. BRADLEY EXPRESS, INC.


34 N.Y.2d 730 (1974)

Philipp Brothers, Respondent, v. Bradley Express, Inc. et al., Respondents, and St. Paul Fire and Marine Insurance Company, Appellant. B. N. R. Agency, Inc., Third-Party Plaintiff-Respondent, v. St. Paul Fire and Marine Insurance Company, Third-Party Defendant-Appellant.

Court of Appeals of the State of New York.

Decided May 8, 1974.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Simon Greenhill and Jerome G. Greenspan for appellant.

Joseph Kasoy for B. N. R. Agency, Inc., respondent.

John L. Conners and Francis A. Montbach for plaintiff-respondent.

Chief Judge BREITEL and Judges GABRIELLI, JONES and RABIN concur; Judge JASEN dissents and votes to modify in a separate opinion in which Judge WACHTLER concurs; Judge STEVENS taking no part.


MEMORANDUM.

The order of the Appellate Division should be affirmed, with costs.

The critical issue on this appeal, whether B. N. R. Agency, Inc. was acting as carrier, raises a question of fact which can not be resolved on a motion for summary judgment. That B. N. R. Agency, Inc. acted as "carrier" for Bradley Express, Inc. in carrying goods for the plaintiff and was not itself a licensed interstate carrier, makes...

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