Endieveri v. Lett

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York

Endieveri v. Lett

299 A.D.2d 879, 750 N.Y.S.2d 222, 2002 N.Y. App. Div. LEXIS 10927

CourtAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York

DecidedNovember 15, 2002

StatusPublished

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Endieveri v. Lett, 299 A.D.2d 879, 750 N.Y.S.2d 222, 2002 N.Y. App. Div. LEXIS 10927 (N.Y. Ct. App. 2002).

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Appeal from an order of Supreme Court, Onondaga County (Centra, J.), entered July 18, 2001, which granted defendant’s motion for summary judgment dismissing the complaint.

It is hereby ordered that the order so appealed from be and the same hereby is unanimously affirmed without costs.

Memorandum: Plaintiffs decedent was killed when his vehicle was struck by another vehicle. The driver of the other vehicle was thereafter convicted of manslaughter in the second degree and driving while intoxicated, and plaintiff commenced this action alleging that defendant had served an excessive amount of alcohol to that driver. Supreme Court properly granted defendant’s motion for summary judgment dismissing the complaint where, as here, there is no allegation that defendant sold alcohol to the driver of the other vehicle. The Court of Appeals has made clear that there is “no basis for departing from the consistent interpretation of lower courts that the Dram Shop Act requires a commercial sale of alcohol” (D’Amico v Christie, 71 NY2d 76, 84). “[I]f there is to be a change in what the Legislature has clearly written it should come from the Legislature” (id). Present — Pine, J.P., Wisner, Hurlbutt, Kehoe and Burns, JJ.

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Appeal from an order of Supreme Court, Onondaga County (Centra, J.), entered July 18, 2001, which granted defendant’s motion for summary judgment dismissing the complaint.

It is hereby ordered that the order so appealed from be and the same hereby is unanimously affirmed without costs.

Memorandum: Plaintiffs decedent was killed when his vehicle was struck by another vehicle. The driver of the other vehicle was thereafter convicted of manslaughter in the second degree and driving while intoxicated, and plaintiff commenced this action alleging that defendant had served an excessive amount of alcohol to that driver. Supreme Court properly granted defendant’s motion for summary judgment dismissing the complaint where, as here, there is no allegation that defendant sold alcohol to the driver of the other vehicle. The Court of Appeals has made clear that there is “no basis for departing from the consistent interpretation of lower courts that the Dram Shop Act requires a commercial sale of alcohol” (D’Amico v Christie, 71 NY2d 76, 84). “[I]f there is to be a change in what the Legislature has clearly written it should come from the Legislature” (id). Present — Pine, J.P., Wisner, Hurlbutt, Kehoe and Burns, JJ.

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299 A.D.2d 879, 750 N.Y.S.2d 222, 2002 N.Y. App. Div. LEXIS 10927, Counsel Stack Legal Research, https://law.counselstack.com/opinion/endieveri-v-lett-nyappdiv-2002.

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