Case Name: Edwin Dziengielewski, Appellant, v. Tops Markets, LLC (Sued Herein as Tops Markets, Also Known as Tops and Another), Respondent
Court: New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 2009-10-09
Citations: 66 A.D.3d 1517
Docket Number: 
Parties: Edwin Dziengielewski, Appellant, v Tops Markets, LLC (Sued Herein as Tops Markets, Also Known as Tops and Another), Respondent.
Judges: 
Reporter: Appellate Division Reports
Volume: 66
Pages: 1517–1517

Head Matter:
Edwin Dziengielewski, Appellant, v Tops Markets, LLC (Sued Herein as Tops Markets, Also Known as Tops and Another), Respondent.
[885 NYS2d 922]

Opinion:
Appeal from an order of the Supreme Court, Erie County (Joseph D. Mintz, J.), entered December 11, 2008 in a personal injury action. The order granted the motion of defendant for summary judgment dismissing the amended complaint.
It is hereby ordered that the order so appealed from is unanimously reversed on the law without costs, the motion is denied and the amended complaint is reinstated.
Memorandum: Plaintiff commenced this action seeking damages for injuries he sustained while using a handleless cart to move two large barrels of animal refuse in defendant's receiving area. We agree with plaintiff that Supreme Court erred in granting defendant's motion for summary judgment dismissing the amended complaint. Defendant failed to establish its entitlement to summary judgment as a matter of law, inasmuch as its submissions in support of its motion raised an issue of fact whether defendant had undertaken the duty of providing the means by which plaintiff was to move the barrels from the receiving area (see Anderson v Bush Indus., 280 AD2d 949, 950 [2001]; see generally Zuckerman v City of New York, 49 NY2d 557, 562 [1980]). Present—Scudder, EJ., Martoche, Peradotto, Garni and Gorski, JJ.