Case Name: Roger Williams et al., Respondents, v. Giordano's Madison Market Basket, LLC, Appellant, et al., Defendant
Court: New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 2006-06-13
Citations: 30 A.D.3d 508
Docket Number: 
Parties: Roger Williams et al., Respondents, v Giordano's Madison Market Basket, LLC, Appellant, et al., Defendant.
Judges: 
Reporter: Appellate Division Reports
Volume: 30
Pages: 508–508

Head Matter:
Roger Williams et al., Respondents, v Giordano's Madison Market Basket, LLC, Appellant, et al., Defendant.
[816 NYS2d 371]

Opinion:
In an action, inter alia, to recover damages for wrongful death, etc., Madison Market Basket, LLC, doing business as Giordano's, sued herein as Giordano's Madison Market Basket, LLC, appeals from an order of the Supreme Court, Suffolk County (Emerson, J.), dated May 11, 2005, which denied its motion for summary judgment dismissing the complaint insofar as asserted against it.
Ordered that the order is affirmed, with costs.
The appellant, in support of its motion for summary judgment dismissing the complaint insofar as asserted against it, made a prima facie showing of entitlement to judgment as a matter of law (see Winegrad v New York Univ. Med. Ctr., 64 NY2d 851 [1985]). The motion was properly denied, however, since the plaintiffs raised triable issues of fact concerning whether the alleged defect was a proximate cause of the decedent's fall and whether it was too trivial to be actionable (see Fairchild v J. Crew Group, Inc., 21 AD3d 523 [2005]; Farrar v Teicholz, 173 AD2d 674 [1991]). Florio, J.E, Luciano, Spolzino and Fisher, JJ., concur.