Case Name: Pablo Santiago, Respondent, v. Weisheng Enterprises LLC et al., Appellants
Court: New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 2015-12-22
Citations: 134 A.D.3d 570
Docket Number: 
Parties: Pablo Santiago, Respondent, v Weisheng Enterprises LLC et al., Appellants.
Judges: 
Reporter: Appellate Division Reports
Volume: 134
Pages: 570–571

Head Matter:
Pablo Santiago, Respondent, v Weisheng Enterprises LLC et al., Appellants.
[22 NYS3d 417]

Opinion:
Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Eileen A. Rakower, J.), entered April 17, 2015, which denied defendants' motion for summary judgment dismissing the complaint, unanimously affirmed, without costs.
Defendants property owner and lessee-restaurant failed to establish their entitlement to judgment as a matter of law, in this action where plaintiff alleges that he was injured when he slipped and fell on a dark patch of ice on the sidewalk abutting defendants' building. Deposition testimony offered by defendant property owner, the owner of the restaurant, and a manager of the restaurant as to the general snow clearing procedures followed by defendants, failed to reflect their personal knowledge as to the adequacy of the snow removal efforts, if any, actually undertaken prior to plaintiffs fall, their knowledge of the condition of the sidewalk, or when the sidewalk had last been inspected (see Rodriguez v Bronx Zoo Rest., Inc., 110 AD3d 412 [1st Dept 2013]; De La Cruz v Lettera Sign & Elec. Co., 77 AD3d 566 [1st Dept 2010]). Concur — Tom, J.R, Renwick, Saxe and Kapnick, JJ.