Gonzalez v Club Monaco U.S., LLC

Gonzalez v Club Monaco U.S., LLC 2012 NY Slip Op 03566 Decided on May 8, 2012 Appellate Division, First Department Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431. This opinion is uncorrected and subject to revision before publication in the Official Reports.

Decided on May 8, 2012
Mazzarelli, J.P., Saxe, Moskowitz, Renwick, Freedman, JJ.
7584 100065/09

[*1]Yolanda Gonzalez, Plaintiff-Respondent,

v

Club Monaco U.S., LLC, et al., Defendants-Appellants.




Law Office of Charles J. Siegel, New York (Richard D.
O'Connell of counsel), for Club Monaco U.S., LLC, appellant.
Torino & Bernstein, P.C., Mineola (Thomas B. Hayn of
counsel), for Extell Belnord, LLC, appellant.
Ephrem J. Wertenteil, New York, for respondent.

Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Anil C. Singh, J.), entered May 5, 2011, which, in an action for personal injuries sustained when plaintiff tripped and fell while exiting defendant Club Monaco US LLC's store, denied defendants' motions for summary judgment dismissing the complaint, unanimously affirmed, without costs.

Defendants failed to establish their entitlement to judgment as a matter of law. The photographs submitted by defendants depict a sizable irregularity on the outermost edge of a top step and fail to show that the defect at issue was trivial as a matter of law (see Abreu v New York City Hous. Auth., 61 AD3d 420 [2009]; Argenio v Metropolitan Transp. Auth., 277 AD2d 165 [2000]). Although it is possible that the defect has no appreciable depth, that cannot be conclusively determined from the photographs, and there is no other evidence of record in that regard (see Rivas v Crotona Estates Hous. Dev. Fund Co., Inc., 74 AD3d 541 [2010]).

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

ENTERED: MAY 8, 2012

CLERK