Case Name: Chaim Shlome Jakabovics et al., Appellants, v. Joseph Rosenberg, Respondent
Court: New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 2008-03-18
Citations: 49 A.D.3d 695
Docket Number: 
Parties: Chaim Shlome Jakabovics et al., Appellants, v Joseph Rosenberg, Respondent.
Judges: 
Reporter: Appellate Division Reports
Volume: 49
Pages: 695–696

Head Matter:
Chaim Shlome Jakabovics et al., Appellants, v Joseph Rosenberg, Respondent.
[853 NYS2d 643]

Opinion:
The infant plaintiff sustained personal injuries when he was struck by the defendant's motor vehicle when the defendant was backing out of his driveway. After commencing this action, the plaintiff mother of the infant plaintiff moved, on their behalf, inter alia, for summary judgment on the issue of liability. The evidence submitted in support of the motion, consisting, inter alia, of the defendant's deposition testimony in which he testified that he was proceeding at less than five miles per hour, looking in all of the car's mirrors and looking backward, as he backed the vehicle out of the driveway, failed to establish a prima facie showing of entitlement to judgment as a matter of law (see Alvarez v Prospect Hosp., 68 NY2d 320, 324 [1986]). "Failure to make such prima facie showing requires a denial" of that branch of the motion which was for summary judgment on the issue of liability, "regardless of the sufficiency of the opposing papers" (id. at 324). Fisher, J.P., Miller, McCarthy and Chambers, JJ., concur.