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QUESTIONS OF FACT (1) WHETHER DEFENDANTS WERE CASUAL SELLERS OF THE GAS PUMPS SOLD TO A SCRAP YARD AND THEREFORE OWED NO DUTY OF CARE TO THE INJURED PLAINTIFF AND (2) WHETHER DEFENDANTS OWED PLAINTIFF A DUTY OF CARE BECAUSE THE PRESENCE OF GASOLINE IN THE PUMP WHICH EXPLODED WAS NOT OPEN AND OBVIOUS (FOURTH DEPT).​

The Fourth Department, reversing Supreme Court, determined defendants’ motion for summary judgment should not have been granted. Defendants sold used gas pumps to a scrap yard, stating that the pumps had been drained of gasoline. When one of the pumps was sent to the shredder it exploded, injuring plaintiff. The other pumps were found to have one to two gallons of gasoline in them. The Fourth Department held there was a question of fact whether defendants were casual sellers of gas pumps and therefore did not owe plaintiff a duty of care. The Fourth Department further held that, even if defendants were casual sellers of gas pumps, there was a question of fact whether they owed a duty of care to plaintiff because the hazard was not open and obvious:

Although it is well settled that casual or occasional sellers of products do “not undertake the special responsibility for public safety assumed by those in the business of regularly supplying those products”… , the evidence submitted by defendants in support of their motion failed to establish that their sale of gas pumps was “wholly incidental” to their business of installing and servicing petroleum distribution systems … .

Even assuming, arguendo, that defendants were merely casual sellers of used gas pumps, we cannot conclude as a matter of law that defendants owed no duty to plaintiff. Even casual sellers owe a duty to warn of dangers that are not open and obvious or readily discernable … . Rosario v Monroe Mech. Servs., Inc., 2018 NY Slip Op 00732, Fourth Dept 2-2-18

NEGLIGENCE (QUESTIONS OF FACT (1) WHETHER DEFENDANTS WERE CASUAL SELLERS OF THE GAS PUMPS SOLD TO A SCRAP YARD AND THEREFORE OWED NO DUTY OF CARE TO THE INJURED PLAINTIFF AND (2) WHETHER DEFENDANTS OWED PLAINTIFF A DUTY OF CARE BECAUSE THE PRESENCE OF GASOLINE IN THE PUMP WHICH EXPLODED WAS NOT OPEN AND OBVIOUS (FOURTH DEPT))/CASUAL SELLERS (NEGLIGENCE, QUESTIONS OF FACT (1) WHETHER DEFENDANTS WERE CASUAL SELLERS OF THE GAS PUMPS SOLD TO A SCRAP YARD AND THEREFORE OWED NO DUTY OF CARE TO THE INJURED PLAINTIFF AND (2) WHETHER DEFENDANTS OWED PLAINTIFF A DUTY OF CARE BECAUSE THE PRESENCE OF GASOLINE IN THE PUMP WHICH EXPLODED WAS NOT OPEN AND OBVIOUS (FOURTH DEPT))/OPEN AND OBVIOUS (NEGLIGENCE, DUTY TO WARN, QUESTIONS OF FACT (1) WHETHER DEFENDANTS WERE CASUAL SELLERS OF THE GAS PUMPS SOLD TO A SCRAP YARD AND THEREFORE OWED NO DUTY OF CARE TO THE INJURED PLAINTIFF AND (2) WHETHER DEFENDANTS OWED PLAINTIFF A DUTY OF CARE BECAUSE THE PRESENCE OF GASOLINE IN THE PUMP WHICH EXPLODED WAS NOT OPEN AND OBVIOUS (FOURTH DEPT))/WARN, DUTY TO (NEGLIGENCE, OPEN AND OBVIOUS, QUESTIONS OF FACT (1) WHETHER DEFENDANTS WERE CASUAL SELLERS OF THE GAS PUMPS SOLD TO A SCRAP YARD AND THEREFORE OWED NO DUTY OF CARE TO THE INJURED PLAINTIFF AND (2) WHETHER DEFENDANTS OWED PLAINTIFF A DUTY OF CARE BECAUSE THE PRESENCE OF GASOLINE IN THE PUMP WHICH EXPLODED WAS NOT OPEN AND OBVIOUS (FOURTH DEPT))/PRODUCTS LIABILITY  (QUESTIONS OF FACT (1) WHETHER DEFENDANTS WERE CASUAL SELLERS OF THE GAS PUMPS SOLD TO A SCRAP YARD AND THEREFORE OWED NO DUTY OF CARE TO THE INJURED PLAINTIFF AND (2) WHETHER DEFENDANTS OWED PLAINTIFF A DUTY OF CARE BECAUSE THE PRESENCE OF GASOLINE IN THE PUMP WHICH EXPLODED WAS NOT OPEN AND OBVIOUS (FOURTH DEPT))

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