Opinion
2013-10-8
Kitty LEE, et al., Plaintiffs–Respondents, v. ANA DEVELOPMENT CORP., et al., Defendants–Appellants, The Hecht Group Corp., et al., Defendants.
Gannon, Rosenfarb, Balletti & Drossman, New York (Lisa L. Gokhulsingh of counsel), for Ana Development Corp., appellant. Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith, LLP, New York (Nicholas Hurzeler of counsel), for 1133 Lexington Avenue Realty Corp. and Don Filippo Restaurant, appellants.
Gannon, Rosenfarb, Balletti & Drossman, New York (Lisa L. Gokhulsingh of counsel), for Ana Development Corp., appellant. Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith, LLP, New York (Nicholas Hurzeler of counsel), for 1133 Lexington Avenue Realty Corp. and Don Filippo Restaurant, appellants.
Shayne, Dachs, Sauer & Dachs, LLP, Mineola (Norman H. Dachs of counsel), for Nail Clarity, Inc., appellant.
Baron Associates P.C., Brooklyn (Jeffrey Mania of counsel), for respondents.
FRIEDMAN, J.P., RICHTER, FEINMAN, GISCHE, JJ.
Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Jeffrey K. Oing, J.), entered June 11, 2012, which, insofar as appealed from as limited by the briefs, denied defendants-appellants' motions for summary judgment dismissing the complaint as against them, unanimously reversed, on the law, without costs, and the motions granted. The Clerk is directed to enter judgment accordingly.
At her deposition, plaintiff Kitty Lee repeatedly testified that she did not know what caused her to fall down the stairs or where precisely she fell, other than somewhere at the top of the stairs. This evidence establishes prima facie defendants' entitlement to judgment ( see Rodriguez v. Leggett Holdings, LLC, 96 A.D.3d 555, 947 N.Y.S.2d 429 [1st Dept.2012]; Daniarov v. New York City Tr. Auth., 62 A.D.3d 480, 879 N.Y.S.2d 404 [1st Dept.2009] ).
In opposition, plaintiffs failed to raise a triable issue of fact whether defendants' negligence was a proximate cause of Lee's fall.