Case Name: Lena De Rico, Respondent, v. Eve C. Duncan, Appellant
Court: New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1994-01-06
Citations: 200 A.D.2d 823
Docket Number: 
Parties: Lena De Rico, Respondent, v Eve C. Duncan, Appellant.
Judges: 
Reporter: Appellate Division Reports
Volume: 200
Pages: 823–824

Head Matter:
Lena De Rico, Respondent, v Eve C. Duncan, Appellant.
[606 NYS2d 443]

Opinion:
—Mercure, J.
Appeal from an order of the Supreme Court (Ellison, J.), entered October 6, 1992 in Che-mung County, which denied defendant's motion for summary judgment dismissing the complaint.
Plaintiff commenced this action to recover for damages sustained when she fell on a sidewalk abutting property owned by defendant at 351 West Church Street in the City of Elmira, Chemung County. The complaint and bill of particulars allege defendant's negligence in maintaining the sidewalk in a dangerous and unfit condition, in failing to make necessary repairs and in affirmatively creating a hazardous condition by improperly repairing the sidewalk. Following joinder of issue and discovery, defendant moved for summary judgment dismissing the complaint. Without rendering a written decision or giving any other indication of its reasoning, Supreme Court denied the motion. Defendant now appeals.
We reverse. Defendant's competent and uncontroverted factual showing that she neither owned the sidewalk upon which plaintiff fell nor undertook any repairs thereof compelled the conclusion that defendant was not liable for plaintiffs injuries as a matter of law (see, Brady v Maloney, 161 AD2d 879, 880; Appio v City of Albany, 144 AD2d 869; Kiernan v Thompson, 137 AD2d 957, 958). Accordingly, defendant's motion should have been granted.
Cardona, P. J., Mikoll, Crew III and Yesawich Jr., JJ., concur. Ordered that the order is reversed, on the law, with costs, motion granted, summary judgment awarded to defendant and complaint dismissed.