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Kadoic v. 1154 First Avenue Tenants

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, First Department
Nov 14, 1999
277 A.D.2d 66 (N.Y. App. Div. 1999)

Opinion

November 14, 1999.

Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Stephen Crane, J.), entered July 13, 1999, which, insofar as appealed from as limited by the briefs, denied plaintiff's motion for partial summary judgment on the issue of defendants building owners' liability under Labor Law § 240(1), and granted defendants' cross motion for summary judgment to the extent of dismissing plaintiff's cause of action under Labor Law § 200, unanimously modified, on the law, to grant plaintiff's motion, and otherwise affirmed, without costs.

Glenn Faegenburg, for plaintiff-appellant.

Nancy D. Lyness, for defendants-respondents.

Before: Rosenberger, J.P., Tom, Wallach, Rubin, Saxe, JJ.


Plaintiff has established that a lack of proper safety equipment was the proximate cause of the accident. Plaintiff presented an essentially consistent version of the circumstances of the accident in both his deposition testimony and affidavit, demonstrating that, whether or not the sign he was attempting to remove actually touched him or the ladder, the force of the sudden release of the sign caused him to lose his balance and fall. Regardless of the propriety of the method plaintiff used to remove the sign, it is plain that the ladder he used was not an adequate safety device for the task he was performing, rendering defendants, who admittedly provided no safety devices, absolutely liable under section 240(1) (Dunn v. Consolidated Edison Co., 272 A.D.2d 129, 707 N.Y.S.2d 420). As to the dismissal of the cause of action under Labor Law § 200, we find, as did the IAS court, that defendants had no notice of the asserted dangerous condition with respect to the sign.

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


Summaries of

Kadoic v. 1154 First Avenue Tenants

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, First Department
Nov 14, 1999
277 A.D.2d 66 (N.Y. App. Div. 1999)
Case details for

Kadoic v. 1154 First Avenue Tenants

Case Details

Full title:BRANIMIR KADOIC, PLAINTIFF-APPELLANT, v. 1154 FIRST AVENUE TENANTS CORP.…

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

Date published: Nov 14, 1999

Citations

277 A.D.2d 66 (N.Y. App. Div. 1999)
716 N.Y.S.2d 386

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