Case ID: ad3d_101/html/0957-01.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Mary Lynn Macris et al., Appellants, v Paula Seoud Matta et al., Respondents.
    [956 NYS2d 173]
   The Supreme Court properly granted the defendants’ motion for summary judgment dismissing the complaint. The defendants established their prima facie entitlement to judgment as a matter of law, as they have no affirmative duty to remedy a natural condition on their property such as the beaver dam at issue here (see Vanderwiele v Taylor, 65 NY 341 [1875]; Frank v Garrison, 184 AD2d 852 [1992]; Lichtman v Nadler, 74 AD2d 66 [1980]). In response to this showing, the plaintiffs failed to raise a triable issue of fact (see Hilltop Nyack Corp. v TRMI Holdings, 272 AD2d 521 [2000]; cf. Higgins v Village of Orchard Park, 277 AD2d 989 [2000]).

The parties’ remaining contentions are without merit. Mastro, J.P., Rivera, Chambers and Lott, JJ., concur.