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Schnur v. City of New York

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, First Department
Oct 31, 2002
298 A.D.2d 332 (N.Y. App. Div. 2002)

Opinion

2091

October 31, 2002.

Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Michael Stallman, J.), entered February 25, 2002, which, insofar as appealed from, denied the motion of Rockledge Scaffold Corp. for summary judgment, unanimously affirmed, without costs.

JOSEPH M. KELLEY, JR., for plaintiff-respondent.

TRACY LEWIS, for defendant-appellant.

Before: Mazzarelli, J.P., Saxe, Ellerin, Lerner, Marlow, JJ.


The court properly found that appellant failed to establish its entitlement to summary judgment. Plaintiff produced evidence that shortly after the accident her father had observed a hole in the tin roof of a sidewalk bridge through which water dripped, thereby forming a large wet area at the precise location where plaintiff had fallen on ice. Ice had not existed anywhere else in the vicinity at the time of the accident. From this evidence, a jury could reasonably infer that appellant was negligent in its construction of the sidewalk bridge and thereby permitted water to drip and freeze upon the sidewalk (see Micallef v. Miehle Co., 39 N.Y.2d 376, 385-386; Phillips v. Seril, 209 A.D.2d 496). Neither actual nor constructive notice need be proven where a defendant is responsible for causing or creating a dangerous condition (Roundpoint v. V.N.A., Inc., 207 A.D.2d 123, 126-127). Given the reasonable inferences that could be drawn from the submitted proof, it was not essential for plaintiff to submit an expert affidavit in order to defeat appellant's summary judgment motion.

The court was not obligated to reject plaintiff's father's affidavit on the ground that plaintiff failed to identify her father as a witness until late in discovery, since plaintiff did make such a designation prior to filing a note of issue (compare Masucci-Matarazzo v. Hoszowski, 291 A.D.2d 208; Robinson v. New York City Hous. Auth., 183 A.D.2d 434).

We have considered and rejected appellant's remaining contentions.

THIS CONSTITUTES THE DECISION AND ORDER OF THE SUPREME COURT, APPELLATE DIVISION, FIRST DEPARTMENT.


Summaries of

Schnur v. City of New York

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, First Department
Oct 31, 2002
298 A.D.2d 332 (N.Y. App. Div. 2002)
Case details for

Schnur v. City of New York

Case Details

Full title:BARBRA SCHNUR, PLAINTIFF-RESPONDENT, v. THE CITY OF NEW YORK, ET AL.…

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

Date published: Oct 31, 2002

Citations

298 A.D.2d 332 (N.Y. App. Div. 2002)
750 N.Y.S.2d 267

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