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Tomao v. City of New York

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, Second Department
Apr 7, 2009
61 A.D.3d 674 (N.Y. App. Div. 2009)

Opinion

No. 2008-01000.

April 7, 2009.

In an action, inter alia, to recover damages for personal injuries, etc., the plaintiffs appeal from an order of the Supreme Court, Richmond County (Aliotta, J.), dated December 10, 2007, which granted the defendants' motion for summary judgment dismissing the complaint.

Jonathan D'Agostino Associates, P.C., Staten Island, N.Y., (Edward J. Pavia, Jr., of counsel), for appellants.

Michael A. Cardozo, Corporation Counsel, New York, N.Y., (Edward F. X. Hart and Marta Ross of counsel; Lawrence Estrada on the brief), for respondents.

Before: Fisher, J.P., Covello, Angiolillo and Dickerson, JJ.


Ordered that the order is affirmed, with costs.

In this slip-and-fall case, the defendants made a prima facie showing of their entitlement to judgment as a matter of law by submitting evidence demonstrating that they neither created nor had actual or constructive notice of the allegedly dangerous condition created by water that had just been tracked into a school by the infant plaintiff ( see Rodriguez v White Plains Pub. Schools, 35 AD3d 704, 705; Hackbarth v McDonalds Corp., 31 AD3d 498, 499; Negron v St. Patrick's Nursing Home, 248 AD2d 687; Kovelsky v City Univ. of N.Y., 221 AD2d 234, 235). Moreover, the defendants also made a prima facie showing that they did not fail to exercise that degree of reasonable care over the infant plaintiff that a parent of ordinary prudence would have exercised under comparable circumstances ( see Hilf v Massapequa Union Free School Dist., 245 AD2d 261, 262). In opposition, the plaintiffs failed to raise a triable issue of fact ( see generally Alvarez v Prospect Hosp., 68 NY2d 320, 324). Accordingly, the Supreme Court properly granted the defendants' motion for summary judgment dismissing the complaint.

[ See 17 Misc 3d 1138(A), 2007 NY Slip Op 52326(U).]


Summaries of

Tomao v. City of New York

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, Second Department
Apr 7, 2009
61 A.D.3d 674 (N.Y. App. Div. 2009)
Case details for

Tomao v. City of New York

Case Details

Full title:TATIANA TOMAO et al., Appellants, v. CITY OF NEW YORK et al., Respondents

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

Date published: Apr 7, 2009

Citations

61 A.D.3d 674 (N.Y. App. Div. 2009)
2009 N.Y. Slip Op. 2774
876 N.Y.S.2d 489

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