Case Name: Frank Mangieri, Respondent, v. City of New York, Defendant, and American Golf Corporation, Appellant
Court: New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1998-12-15
Citations: 256 A.D.2d 153
Docket Number: 
Parties: Frank Mangieri, Respondent, v City of New York, Defendant, and American Golf Corporation, Appellant.
Judges: 
Reporter: Appellate Division Reports
Volume: 256
Pages: 153–153

Head Matter:
Frank Mangieri, Respondent, v City of New York, Defendant, and American Golf Corporation, Appellant.
[681 NYS2d 520]

Opinion:
—Order, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Lucindo Suarez, J.), entered October 23, 1997, which, to the extent appealed from as limited by defendant-appellant's brief, denied defendant-appellant's motion for summary judgment dismissing the complaint against it, unanimously affirmed, without costs.
Contrary to defendant-appellant's argument, it owed plaintiff a duty of care since, pursuant to its agreement with defendant City of New York, defendant-appellant was solely responsible for the repair and maintenance of the subject golf course and plaintiff, as a golfing patron upon that course, was reasonably within the class of individuals entitled, and, indeed, compelled to rely upon defendant-appellant's satisfactory performance of its exclusive maintenance undertaking (see, Palka v Service-master Mgt. Servs. Corp., 83 NY2d 579, 584-590). Concur— Ellerin, J. P., Nardelli, Rubin and Saxe, JJ.