Case Name: Wanda Torres, Appellant, v. 1420 Realty, L.L.C., et al., Respondents, et al., Defendant
Court: New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 2013-11-12
Citations: 111 A.D.3d 434
Docket Number: 
Parties: Wanda Torres, Appellant, v 1420 Realty, L.L.C., et al., Respondents, et al., Defendant.
Judges: 
Reporter: Appellate Division Reports
Volume: 111
Pages: 434–434

Head Matter:
Wanda Torres, Appellant, v 1420 Realty, L.L.C., et al., Respondents, et al., Defendant.
[974 NYS2d 405]

Opinion:
— Order, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Lizbeth Gonzalez, J.), entered July 20, 2012, which granted defendants-respondents' motion for summary judgment dismissing the complaint as against them, unanimously affirmed, without costs.
Plaintiff sustained injuries when she fell after the paint bucket she was using as a step stool tilted over, allegedly due to the uneven condition of the floor of her apartment in defendants' building. Plaintiff's independent and superseding act of using the paint bucket as a step stool, which was placed on an uneven floor, was not foreseeable, thereby breaking the chain of causation (see Montgomery v Federal Express Corp., 4 NY3d 805 [2005]; Derdiarian v Felix Contr. Corp., 51 NY2d 308, 315 [1980]; compare Gonzalez v Handwerger, 180 AD2d 411 [1st Dept 1992]). Concur — Tom, J.P., Andrias, Friedman, Freedman and Clark, JJ.