Case Name: Gertrude Hecht, Respondent, v. Town of New Castle, Defendant, and Muriel C. Dolce et al., Appellants
Court: New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 2000-01-24
Citations: 268 A.D.2d 504
Docket Number: 
Parties: Gertrude Hecht, Respondent, v Town of New Castle, Defendant, and Muriel C. Dolce et al., Appellants.
Judges: 
Reporter: Appellate Division Reports
Volume: 268
Pages: 504–504

Head Matter:
Gertrude Hecht, Respondent, v Town of New Castle, Defendant, and Muriel C. Dolce et al., Appellants.
[701 NYS2d 665]

Opinion:
—In an action to recover damages for personal injuries, the defendants Muriel C. Dolce, Donn C. Dolce, and James Dolce appeal, as limited by their brief, from so much of an order of the Supreme Court, Westchester County (Rosato, J.), entered March 22, 1999, as denied their cross motion for summary judgment dismissing the complaint insofar as asserted against them.
Ordered that the order is reversed insofar as appealed from, on the law, with costs, the cross motion is granted, the complaint insofar as asserted against the appellants is dismissed, and the action against the remaining defendant is severed.
The defendants Muriel C. Dolce, Donn C. Dolce, and James Dolce (hereinafter the Dolce defendants) submitted proof in admissible form by a licensed land surveyor that the area where the plaintiff fell was within an easement granted by them to the defendant Town of New Castle (see, Village of Ellenville v Searles, 235 AD2d 693). In opposition, the plaintiff failed to submit any evidence in admissible form to establish the existence of a triable issue of fact as to the location of the plaintiff's alleged fall.
The plaintiff's opposition to the cross motion was also insufficient to establish that the Dolce defendants retained control over the premises or were contractually obligated to repair unsafe conditions. Accordingly, the Supreme Court should have granted the cross motion for summary judgment dismissing the complaint (see, Berado v City of Mount Vernon, 262 AD2d 513). Bracken, J. P., Santucci, Altman, Friedmann and H. Miller, JJ., concur.