Opinion
November 9, 1999
Robert B. Taylor, for Plaintiff-Appellant.
Joseph J. Andriola and Kathleen Alberton, for Defendants-Respondents.
NARDELLI, J.P., TOM, MAZZARELLI, WALLACH, BUCKLEY, JJ.
Order, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Lucindo Suarez, J.), entered on or about August 10, 1998, which granted defendants' motion and cross-motion for summary judgment dismissing the complaint, unanimously affirmed, without costs.
Plaintiff's evidence that she slipped and fell on an oil puddle in a parking garage, which puddle she had not noticed prior to her fall although she had noticed other oil puddles at other areas of the garage, was insufficient to avoid summary judgment in favor of defendants. The record established that defendants did not have a sufficient opportunity, with the exercise of reasonable care, to remedy the situation (Mercer v. City of New York, 223 A.D.2d 688, affd 88 N.Y.2d 955; Lewis v. Metropolitan Transp. Auth., 99 A.D.2d 246,affd 64 N.Y.2d 670). In view of the unrefuted evidence that the City was an out-of-possession owner, summary judgment in favor of the City is also appropriate on that basis.
THIS CONSTITUTES THE DECISION AND ORDER OF THE SUPREME COURT, APPELLATE DIVISION, FIRST DEPARTMENT.