Case Name: Italo Bruno, Plaintiff, v. Clifford Heinrich et al., Respondents, and Robert Napolitano, Appellant
Court: New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1994-03-10
Citations: 202 A.D.2d 256
Docket Number: 
Parties: Italo Bruno, Plaintiff, v Clifford Heinrich et al., Respondents, and Robert Napolitano, Appellant.
Judges: 
Reporter: Appellate Division Reports
Volume: 202
Pages: 256–256

Head Matter:
Italo Bruno, Plaintiff, v Clifford Heinrich et al., Respondents, and Robert Napolitano, Appellant.
[609 NYS2d 782]

Opinion:
—Order, Supreme Court, Nassau County (John S. Lockman, J.), entered December 12, 1991, which denied defendant-appellant's motion for summary judgment pursuant to CPLR 3212 dismissing the complaint, unanimously affirmed, without costs.
Defendant-appellant has failed to establish as a matter of law that decedent's conduct was an unforeseeable intervening act that constituted a superceding cause relieving him from any potential liability for allowing her to exit his car on a six-lane highway with no provision for pedestrian traffic (see, Rivera v New York City Tr. Auth., 77 NY2d 322; Kriz v Schum, 75 NY2d 25; Kush v City of Buffalo, 59 NY2d 26). Concur — Rosenberger, J. P., Ross, Asch, Rubin and Tom, JJ.