Case Name: Ruby Wilson, Appellant, v. New York City Transit Authority, Respondent
Court: New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 2009-10-29
Citations: 66 A.D.2d 602
Docket Number: 
Parties: Ruby Wilson, Appellant, v New York City Transit Authority, Respondent.
Judges: 
Reporter: Appellate Division Reports
Volume: 66
Pages: 602–603

Head Matter:
Ruby Wilson, Appellant, v New York City Transit Authority, Respondent.
[888 NYS2d 476]

Opinion:
Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Donna M. Mills, J.), entered April 9, 2008, which granted defendant's motion for summary judgment dismissing the complaint, unanimously affirmed, without costs.
In opposition to defendant's prima facie showing of entitlement to judgment as a matter of law, plaintiff offered nothing more than belated speculation that her trip and fall was caused by overcrowded conditions on the stairway to the subway. Plaintiff, who repeatedly denied knowing the reason for her fall, failed to present any evidence that defendant's negligence had caused her injuries (see Daniarov v New York City Tr. Auth., 62 AD3d 480 [2009]; Rudner v New York Presbyt. Hosp., 42 AD3d 357 [2007]). The assertion that overcrowded conditions formed the basis of liability was not articulated in her notice of claim, thereby precluding her from raising this new theory in opposition to the motion for summary judgment (see Sutin v Manhattan & Bronx Surface Tr. Operating Auth., 54 AD3d 616 [2008]). Concur—Sweeny, J.P., Buckley, DeGrasse, Freedman and AbdusSalaam, JJ.