Brown v Beautiful Vil. Redevelopment Assoc.

Brown v Beautiful Vil. Redevelopment Assoc. 2013 NY Slip Op 06942 Decided on October 24, 2013 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 October 24, 2013
Andrias, J.P., Friedman, Acosta, DeGrasse, Freedman, JJ.
10851 115509/10

[*1]Dashawn Brown, an Infant by His Mother and Natural Guardian, Chivonne Wigfall, et al., Plaintiffs-Appellants,

v

Beautiful Village Redevelopment Associates, Defendant-Respondent.




Arnold E. DiJoseph, P.C., New York (Arnold E. DiJoseph, III of
counsel), for appellants.
Gannon Rosenfarb Balletti & Drossman, New York (Lisa L.
Gokhulsingh of counsel), for respondent.

Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Eileen A. Rakower, J.), entered July 23, 2012, which granted defendant's motion for summary judgment dismissing the complaint, unanimously affirmed, without costs.

Security-camera footage of the subject accident shows that the infant plaintiff fell because he laid his entire body down on the narrow railing in the stairwell of the apartment building in which he lived and lifted his hands in the air in an attempt to shift them from the post to the railing. This uncontradicted evidence demonstrates as a matter of law that defendant was not negligent, requiring dismissal of the complaint.

We have considered plaintiffs' remaining contentions and find them unavailing.

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

ENTERED: OCTOBER 24, 2013

CLERK