The order of the Appellate Division should be reversed, with costs, defendant's motion for summary judgment granted, and the question certified answered in the negative.
This court has repeatedly held that in order to obtain summary judgment, movant must establish its defense or cause of action sufficiently to warrant a court's directing judgment in its favor as a matter of law (Zuckerman v City of...
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