Alexander v. Westminster Presbyterian Church

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York

Alexander v. Westminster Presbyterian Church

291 A.D.2d 813, 737 N.Y.S.2d 572, 2002 N.Y. App. Div. LEXIS 1069

CourtAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York

DecidedFebruary 1, 2002

StatusPublished

Cited by3 cases

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Alexander v. Westminster Presbyterian Church, 291 A.D.2d 813, 737 N.Y.S.2d 572, 2002 N.Y. App. Div. LEXIS 1069 (N.Y. Ct. App. 2002).

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—Appeal from an order of Supreme Court, Monroe County (Affronti, J.), entered December 1, 2000, which granted defendants’ motion for summary judgment.

It is hereby ordered that the order so appealed from be and the same hereby is unanimously modified on the law by denying the motion of defendants in part and reinstating the amended complaint against defendants Montgomery Neighborhood Center, Inc. and Westminster Presbyterian Church and as modified the order is affirmed without costs.

Memorandum: For reasons stated in its decision, Supreme Court properly granted that part of defendants’ motion seeking summary judgment dismissing the amended complaint against defendants County of Monroe and Monroe County Department of Social Services. The court erred, however, in granting that part of defendants’ motion seeking summary judgment dismissing the amended complaint against defendants Montgomery Neighborhood Center, Inc. (Montgomery) and Westminster Presbyterian Church (Westminster). Plaintiff commenced this action individually and on behalf of her infant daughter, alleging that her daughter was exposed to lead paint while residing in a house owned by Westminster and leased to Montgomery for the purpose of providing emergency short-term housing to families in need. Montgomery failed to meet its initial burden of establishing lack of constructive notice as a matter of law (see, Chapman v Silber, 97 NY2d 9). Westminster failed to meet its initial burden of establishing that it took any [814]*814precautionary measures to prevent further exposure of plaintiffs daughter to lead between the date on which it received notice of the hazardous condition and the date on which plaintiff moved from the premises (see, Irizarry v Diep Chu, 283 AD2d 947). Thus, the motion with respect to those defendants should have been denied, “regardless of the sufficiency of the opposing papers” (Rodgers v Earl, 249 AD2d 990, 990; see, Guck v Palozzi, 269 AD2d 777, 778). We therefore modify the order by denying defendants’ motion in part and reinstating the amended complaint against Montgomery and Westminster. Present — Pine, J.P., Wisner, Kehoe, Gorski and Lawton, JJ. [See 186 Misc 2d 463.]

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—Appeal from an order of Supreme Court, Monroe County (Affronti, J.), entered December 1, 2000, which granted defendants’ motion for summary judgment.

It is hereby ordered that the order so appealed from be and the same hereby is unanimously modified on the law by denying the motion of defendants in part and reinstating the amended complaint against defendants Montgomery Neighborhood Center, Inc. and Westminster Presbyterian Church and as modified the order is affirmed without costs.

Memorandum: For reasons stated in its decision, Supreme Court properly granted that part of defendants’ motion seeking summary judgment dismissing the amended complaint against defendants County of Monroe and Monroe County Department of Social Services. The court erred, however, in granting that part of defendants’ motion seeking summary judgment dismissing the amended complaint against defendants Montgomery Neighborhood Center, Inc. (Montgomery) and Westminster Presbyterian Church (Westminster). Plaintiff commenced this action individually and on behalf of her infant daughter, alleging that her daughter was exposed to lead paint while residing in a house owned by Westminster and leased to Montgomery for the purpose of providing emergency short-term housing to families in need. Montgomery failed to meet its initial burden of establishing lack of constructive notice as a matter of law (see, Chapman v Silber, 97 NY2d 9). Westminster failed to meet its initial burden of establishing that it took any [814]*814precautionary measures to prevent further exposure of plaintiffs daughter to lead between the date on which it received notice of the hazardous condition and the date on which plaintiff moved from the premises (see, Irizarry v Diep Chu, 283 AD2d 947). Thus, the motion with respect to those defendants should have been denied, “regardless of the sufficiency of the opposing papers” (Rodgers v Earl, 249 AD2d 990, 990; see, Guck v Palozzi, 269 AD2d 777, 778). We therefore modify the order by denying defendants’ motion in part and reinstating the amended complaint against Montgomery and Westminster. Present — Pine, J.P., Wisner, Kehoe, Gorski and Lawton, JJ. [See 186 Misc 2d 463.]

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