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Orozco v. 725 S. Blvd., LLC

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, First Department
Mar 8, 2011
82 A.D.3d 480 (N.Y. App. Div. 2011)

Opinion

No. 4458.

March 8, 2011.

Order, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Howard R. Silver, J.), entered October 21, 2009, which, to the extent appealed from as limited by the briefs, granted defendant's motion for summary judgment dismissing the complaint, unanimously affirmed, without costs.

Pena Kahn, PLLC, Bronx (Diane Welch Bando of counsel), for appellant.

Morris Duffy Alonso Faley, New York (Iryna S. Krauchanka of counsel), for respondent.

Before: Andrias, J.P., Catterson, Moskowitz, Abdus-Salaam and Román, JJ.


Defendant landlord established prima facie that it neither knew nor had reason to know that the tenant's dog that attacked plaintiff had vicious propensities ( see Rivers v New York City Hous. Auth., 264 AD2d 342). Although the building superintendent testified that the other tenants were frightened of the pit bull, he also said that he had never received any complaints about the animal or observed it acting aggressively and that during his own encounters with the dog in the hallway the dog passed him "at ease." In opposition, plaintiff failed to raise any issues of fact. His testimony that on the day before the attack the dog had growled at him does not support the inference that defendant knew or should have known of the dog's vicious propensities ( see Smith v City of New York, 68 AD3d 445). Nor is it significant that the tenant allegedly tied the dog when it was in the apartment, since there is no evidence that the tenant did so because he feared that the dog would attack a visitor ( see Collier v Zambito, 1 NY3d 444, 447).

We have considered plaintiffs remaining arguments and find them unavailing.


Summaries of

Orozco v. 725 S. Blvd., LLC

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, First Department
Mar 8, 2011
82 A.D.3d 480 (N.Y. App. Div. 2011)
Case details for

Orozco v. 725 S. Blvd., LLC

Case Details

Full title:JUAN OROZCO, Appellant, v. 725 S. BLVD., LLC, Respondent

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

Date published: Mar 8, 2011

Citations

82 A.D.3d 480 (N.Y. App. Div. 2011)
2011 N.Y. Slip Op. 1706
918 N.Y.S.2d 90

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