Case Name: Odie Hill, Appellant, v. Gilbert Spitzer et al., Respondents. (And a Third-Party Action.)
Court: New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1999-12-21
Citations: 267 A.D.2d 149
Docket Number: 
Parties: Odie Hill, Appellant, v Gilbert Spitzer et al., Respondents. (And a Third-Party Action.)
Judges: 
Reporter: Appellate Division Reports
Volume: 267
Pages: 149–149

Head Matter:
Odie Hill, Appellant, v Gilbert Spitzer et al., Respondents. (And a Third-Party Action.)
[700 NYS2d 16]

Opinion:
—Order, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Jerry Crispino, J.), entered October 23, 1998, which granted defendants' motion for summary judgment dismissing the complaint, unanimously affirmed, without costs.
The hazard to which plaintiff attributes her fall and injury, an uneven, raised and torn area of carpeting on premises owned by defendants, did not constitute a structural and/or design defect violative of a statute (see, Levy v Daitz, 196 AD2d 454). Accordingly, defendants, out-of-possession landlords who, pursuant to a lease, retained the right to reenter the subject premises to make needed repairs but did not undertake to repair or maintain the premises, may not be held liable for plaintiff's harm (see, Manning v New York Tel. Co., 157 AD2d 264). Concur — Sullivan, J. P., Rosenberger, Nardelli, Williams and Friedman, JJ.