Case Name: Carmela Pietrangolare, Appellant, v. Anthony Catalioto et al., Respondents
Court: New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1998-11-19
Citations: 255 A.D.2d 221
Docket Number: 
Parties: Carmela Pietrangolare, Appellant, v Anthony Catalioto et al., Respondents.
Judges: 
Reporter: Appellate Division Reports
Volume: 255
Pages: 221–221

Head Matter:
Carmela Pietrangolare, Appellant, v Anthony Catalioto et al., Respondents.
[680 NYS2d 94]

Opinion:
—Order, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Stanley Green, J.), entered June 11, 1997, which granted defendants' motion to dismiss the complaint for failure to state a cause of action and denied plaintiffs cross motion for summary judgment on liability, unanimously affirmed, with costs.
The IAS Court's dismissal of plaintiffs action for personal injuries was proper. Under the circumstances herein, where plaintiff alleges that she sustained injuries after her toddler grandson pulled a purse which his mother had hung on a kitchen chair, it cannot be said that the chair in question, which fell on plaintiffs foot, was a dangerous instrumentality (see, Nolecheck v Gesuale, 46 NY2d 332). Concur — Rosenberger, J. P., Ellerin, Wallach and Saxe, JJ.