Case Name: Carlos T. Soto, an Infant, by His Mother and Natural Guardian, Margaret Soto, et al., Respondents, v. Anron Enterprises et al., Defendants, and, Victory Sanitation, Ltd., et al., Appellants
Court: New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 2002-04-25
Citations: 293 A.D.2d 395
Docket Number: 
Parties: Carlos T. Soto, an Infant, by His Mother and Natural Guardian, Margaret Soto, et al., Respondents, v Anron Enterprises et al., Defendants, and, Victory Sanitation, Ltd., et al., Appellants.
Judges: 
Reporter: Appellate Division Reports
Volume: 293
Pages: 395–395

Head Matter:
Carlos T. Soto, an Infant, by His Mother and Natural Guardian, Margaret Soto, et al., Respondents, v Anron Enterprises et al., Defendants, and, Victory Sanitation, Ltd., et al., Appellants.
[740 NYS2d 618]

Opinion:
Order, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Luis Gonzalez, J.), entered June 5, 2001, which, inter alia, denied defendants-appellants' motion for summary judgment dismissing the complaint as against them, unanimously affirmed, without costs.
Inasmuch as there was evidence before the court sufficient to raise a triable issue as to whether appellants created or caused the alleged hazard, and to support the inference that the alleged hazard, situated upon a public sidewalk, posed a foreseeable risk to pedestrians such as the infant plaintiff, appellants' motion for summary judgment was properly denied. 'When one undertakes work in a public highway which, unless carefully done, will create conditions which are dangerous to members of the public using the highway, in the usual and ordinary manner, he is under a duty to use requisite care" (Boylhart v DiMarco & Reimann, 270 NY 217, 221). Concur—Mazzarelli, J.P., Sullivan, Wallach and Lerner, JJ.