Opinion
2001-09969
Argued May 23, 2002
August 12, 2002
In an action to recover damages for personal injuries, etc., the plaintiffs appeal, as limited by their brief, from so much of a resettled order of the Supreme Court, Richmond County (Minardo, J.), entered June 21, 2001, as, upon, in effect, granting reargument, adhered to a prior determination in an order dated January 12, 2001, granting that branch of the defendants' motion which was for summary judgment dismissing the complaint insofar as asserted against the defendants August Pagano and Marilyn Pagano, individually.
Bernadette Panzella, P.C., Staten Island, N.Y. (Robert A. Mulhall of counsel), for appellants.
Conway, Farrell, Curtin Kelly, P.C., New York, N.Y. (Jonathan T. Uejio of counsel), for respondents.
Before: ANITA R. FLORIO, J.P., NANCY E. SMITH, WILLIAM D. FRIEDMANN, HOWARD MILLER, JJ.
ORDERED that the order is affirmed insofar as appealed from, with costs.
The 15-year-old plaintiff James Fertitta and his mother commenced this negligence action against the 15-year-old defendant Salvatore Pagano and his parents to recover damages for injuries sustained by the infant plaintiff when the two boys were play-wrestling on the front lawn of the defendants' home. The boys were wrestling with the knowledge, though not the consent, of the defendant Marilyn Pagano. The Supreme Court granted that branch of the defendants' motion which was for summary judgment dismissing the complaint insofar as asserted against the defendants Marilyn Pagano and August Pagano as individuals. Contrary to the plaintiffs' contention, the defendants satisfied their initial burden by demonstrating that Marilyn Pagano acted reasonably under the circumstances, and that there was no evidence that the infant defendant had a tendency to engage in vicious conduct that might endanger a third party and that his parents were aware of such propensities (see LaTorre v. Genesee Mgt., 90 N.Y.2d 576, 583; Feinerman v. Kaplan, 290 A.D.2d 480; DiCarlo v. City of New York, 286 A.D.2d 363, 365; see generally D'Amico v. Christie, 71 N.Y.2d 76) . In response, the plaintiffs failed to present evidence sufficient to raise a triable issue of fact (see Zuckerman v. City of New York, 49 N.Y.2d 557). Accordingly, the Supreme Court properly dismissed the complaint insofar as asserted against Marilyn Pagano and August Pagano, individually.
FLORIO, J.P., SMITH, FRIEDMANN and H. MILLER, JJ., concur.