Title: Sonny Boy Realty, Inc. v City of New York

State: new-york

Issuer: New York Appellate Court

Document:

Sonny Boy Realty, Inc. v City of New York


2005 NY Slip Op 03585 [4 NY3d 858]


May 3, 2005


Court of Appeals


Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431.


As corrected through Wednesday, July 27, 2005



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Sonny Boy Realty, Inc., Respondent,vCity of New York, Appellant.Argued March 30, 2005; decided May 3, 2005



Sonny Boy Realty, Inc. v City of New York, 8 AD3d 171, affirmed.



APPEARANCES OF COUNSEL


Michael A. Cardozo, Corporation Counsel, New York City (Julian L. Kalkstein and Larry A. Sonnenshein of counsel), for appellant.
Gennet, Kallman, Antin & Robinson, P.C., New York City (Brian J. Bolan and Mark L. Antin of counsel), for respondent.

OPINION OF THE COURT

Order affirmed, with costs, and certified question answered in the affirmative. We agree with the Appellate Division that the lease imposed an obligation on the tenant to make repairs necessitated by its own negligence or the negligence of its invitees.
Concur: Chief Judge Kaye and Judges G.B. Smith, Ciparick, Rosenblatt, Graffeo, Read and R.S. Smith.