Case Name: Damon Kovelsky, an Infant, by His Mother and Natural Guardian, Gloria Kovelsky, Appellant, v. City University of New York, Respondent
Court: New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1995-11-21
Citations: 221 A.D.2d 234
Docket Number: Claim No. 79257
Parties: Damon Kovelsky, an Infant, by His Mother and Natural Guardian, Gloria Kovelsky, Appellant, v City University of New York, Respondent.
Judges: 
Reporter: Appellate Division Reports
Volume: 221
Pages: 234–235

Head Matter:
Damon Kovelsky, an Infant, by His Mother and Natural Guardian, Gloria Kovelsky, Appellant, v City University of New York, Respondent.
(Claim No. 79257.)
[634 NYS2d 1]

Opinion:
—Judgment, Court of Claims (Albert Blinder, J.), entered January 26, 1994, which upon a grant of defendant's motion to dismiss, made at the conclusion of the nonjury trial, dismissed the claim, unanimously affirmed, without costs.
Claimant failed to establish that defendant had created a dangerous condition, or had constructive or actual knowledge that there was moisture on the second floor of the building and that defendant could have prevented the condition through reasonable care (Miller v Gimbel Bros., 262 NY 107).
Defendant was not required to cover all of its floors with mats, nor to continuously mop up all moisture resulting from tracked-in, melting snow (Seiden v National Commercial Bank & Trust, 57 Misc 2d 132). Here, the discovery of the wet floor was essentially contemporaneous with the accident itself (Boccaccino v Our Lady of Pity R. C. Church, 18 AD2d 1055). Concur—Murphy, P. J., Sullivan, Wallach, Ross and Williams, JJ.