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Pravato v. Pravato

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, Second Department
Jul 1, 1991
175 A.D.2d 116 (N.Y. App. Div. 1991)

Opinion

July 1, 1991

Appeal from the Supreme Court, Kings County (Ramirez, J.).


Ordered that the order is reversed, on the law, with costs, and the defendant's motion to dismiss the complaint pursuant to CPLR 3211 (a) (7) is granted.

The infant plaintiff was injured when she fell or was thrown from a pony that the defendant, her father, had brought her to a stable to ride. Although the plaintiffs here assert that the defendant violated a duty ordinarily owed independently of the parent-child relationship (see, Holodook v Spencer, 36 N.Y.2d 35, 50), we discern no facts within the four corners of the complaint which support any cause of action (see, Guggenheimer v Ginzburg, 43 N.Y.2d 268, 275) other than one premised on negligent parental supervision, a cause of action not cognizable in New York (Holodook v Spencer, supra; Parsons v Wham-O, Inc., 150 A.D.2d 435, 436; McGill v McGill, 127 A.D.2d 996). The defendant's motion to dismiss the complaint, including the derivative cause of action interposed on behalf of the plaintiff mother, should have been granted (see, McGill v McGill, supra; see also, Karlsons v Guerinot, 57 A.D.2d 73, 81). Thompson, J.P., Kunzeman, Sullivan and Harwood, JJ., concur.


Summaries of

Pravato v. Pravato

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, Second Department
Jul 1, 1991
175 A.D.2d 116 (N.Y. App. Div. 1991)
Case details for

Pravato v. Pravato

Case Details

Full title:CORINN M. PRAVATO et al., Respondents, v. JOSEPH PRAVATO, Appellant

Court:Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, Second Department

Date published: Jul 1, 1991

Citations

175 A.D.2d 116 (N.Y. App. Div. 1991)
571 N.Y.S.2d 811

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