Opinion
No. 2010-06459.
March 29, 2011.
In an action, inter alia, pursuant to Navigation Law §§ 181 and 190 to recover damages for the discharge of oil onto real property, the defendant Abbott Mills, Inc., appeals, and the defendant Excelsior Insurance Company separately appeals, as limited by their respective briefs, from so much of an order of the Supreme Court, Orange County (Slobod, J.), dated June 4, 2010, as denied those branches of their respective motions which were, in effect, for summary judgment dismissing the first, second, and fourth causes of action in the complaint insofar as asserted against each of them, and granted those branches of the plaintiffs' cross motion which were for summary judgment on the issue of liability on the first and second causes of action of the complaint.
Hodges, Walsh Slater, LLP, White Plains, N.Y. (Paul E. Svensson of counsel), for appellant Abbott Mills, Inc. Henderson Brennan, White Plains, N.Y. (John T. Brennan of counsel), for appellant Excelsior Insurance Company.
Mary Patricia Papini Guidetti, Middletown, N.Y., and Oxman Tulis Kirkpatrick Whyatt Geiger, LLP, White Plains, N.Y. (Brian J. Stone of counsel), for respondent (one brief filed).
Before: Mastro, J.P., Dillon, Balkin and Miller, JJ.
Ordered that the order is affirmed insofar as appealed from, with one bill of costs.
On July 2, 2007, the defendant Abbott Mills, Inc., mistakenly delivered 400 gallons of fuel oil to the plaintiffs residence. Although the oil tank had been removed from the residence when the plaintiff purchased the home, an oil fill pipe had not been removed, and oil was pumped through that pipe into the garage.
Contrary to the defendants' contentions, the plaintiff demonstrated her prima facie entitlement to judgment as a matter of law on her first two causes of action pursuant to Navigation Law §§ 181 and 190 to recover for property damage and litigation costs resulting from the erroneous delivery of oil ( see generally State of New York v Green, 96 NY2d 403; Tifft v Bigelow's Oil Serv., Inc., 70 AD3d 1248). In opposition, the defendants failed to raise a triable issue of fact ( see Tifft v Bigelow's Oil Serv., Inc., 70 AD3d 1248). Accordingly, the Supreme Court correctly granted those branches of the plaintiffs cross motion which were for summary judgment on the issue of liability on the first and second causes of action, and denied those branches of the defendants' respective motions which were, in effect, for summary judgment dismissing those causes of action insofar as asserted against each of them.
The defendants' remaining contentions are without merit.
The plaintiffs contention that her fifth cause of action should not have been dismissed is not properly before this Court, since the plaintiff failed, to appeal from the order ( see Village of Croton-on-Hudson v Northeast Interchange Ry., LLC, 46 AD3d 546, 548).