Opinion
July 13, 1965
Appeal from a judgment of the Supreme Court which dismissed the complaint, in a negligence action, at the close of the plaintiffs' case. There were apparently alternate ways of access to the trailer which plaintiffs occupied and plaintiff wife chose to walk on a way or rutted track made by vehicles traversing the farm pasture, and in so doing fell and was injured. The existent conditions were apparent when plaintiffs' occupancy began. In a recent case similar to this, although the facts were markedly stronger in plaintiff's favor than here, we affirmed a nonsuit, remarking upon plaintiff's acceptance of the "practical necessities" of the physical situation and holding "unrealistic and unreasonable" plaintiff's contention that defendant was required to maintain its private road "clear of all hazards to pedestrians resulting from its normal, necessary and intended use and from the vagaries of Winter weather." ( Denning v. Pioneer Trailer Sales, 20 A.D.2d 846, 847.) Judgment affirmed, without costs. Gibson, P.J., Herlihy, Reynolds, Taylor and Aulisi, JJ., concur.