Castillo v. New York City Transit Authority

69 A.D.3d 487, 891 N.Y.2d 645

• Court: Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
• Decided: January 19, 2010
• Status: Published

Opinion

The evidence submitted by defendants was insufficient to establish as a matter of law that plaintiff solely caused his accident in this slip-and-fall matter or that defendants did not create the alleged water-and-debris hazard and lacked actual or constructive notice of it. Not only did defendants fail to offer specific evidence as to their activities on the day of the accident, but the defendant church acknowledged that it maintained and cleaned the premises daily, with the exception of Sundays, the day the accident occurred (Lebron v Napa Realty Corp., 65 AD3d 436 [2009]; Moser v BP/CG Ctr. I, LLC, 56 AD3d 323 [2008]; Baptiste v 1626 Meat Corp., 45 AD3d 259 [2007]). The motion court also properly found that plaintiffs submissions were sufficient to create triable issues of fact and that issues of credibility were to be resolved at trial, and not by summary judgment (S.J. Capelin Assoc. v Globe Mfg. Corp., 34 NY2d 338, 341 [1974]).

We have considered defendants’ remaining arguments and find them unavailing. Concur—Mazzarelli, J.E, Saxe, Acosta, DeGrasse and Manzanet-Daniels, JJ.