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Combustion Engineering, Inc. v. Travelers Indemnity Co.

423 N.E.2d 40, 53 N.Y.2d 875, 440 N.Y.S.2d 617, 1981 N.Y. LEXIS 2455
CourtNew York Court of Appeals
DecidedMay 7, 1981
StatusPublished
Cited by19 cases

This text of 423 N.E.2d 40 (Combustion Engineering, Inc. v. Travelers Indemnity Co.) is published on Counsel Stack Legal Research, covering New York Court of Appeals primary law. Counsel Stack provides free access to over 12 million legal documents including statutes, case law, regulations, and constitutions.

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Combustion Engineering, Inc. v. Travelers Indemnity Co., 423 N.E.2d 40, 53 N.Y.2d 875, 440 N.Y.S.2d 617, 1981 N.Y. LEXIS 2455 (N.Y. 1981).

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OPINION OF THE COURT

Memorandum.

The order of the Appellate Division should be affirmed, with costs, for the reasons stated in the memorandum opinion of that court (75 AD2d 777).

That court dismissed the declaratory judgment cause of action, not on the merits with respect to the substantive rights of the parties, but on the threshold procedural ground that the court was without jurisdiction as a matter of law to entertain a declaratory judgment action. “We think that this is indeed a case in which the request for a declaratory judgment is premature, depending upon a future event beyond the control of the parties which may never occur, and that, therefore, as a matter of law, the court may not entertain the claim for a declaratory judgment as against Aetna” (75 AD2d 777, 779). There was and is, therefore, no occasion for any declaration of the rights of the parties.

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