Case Name: Leonard D. Alnutt et al., Respondents, v. J&E Electric, Appellant
Court: New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 2006-04-28
Citations: 28 A.D.3d 1214
Docket Number: 
Parties: Leonard D. Alnutt et al., Respondents, v J&E Electric, Appellant.
Judges: 
Reporter: Appellate Division Reports
Volume: 28
Pages: 1214–1215

Head Matter:
Leonard D. Alnutt et al., Respondents, v J&E Electric, Appellant.
[815 NYS2d 390]

Opinion:
Appeal from an order of the Supreme Court, Cayuga County (Mark H. Fandrich, A.J.), entered May 19, 2005 in a personal injury action. The order denied defendant's motion for summary judgment dismissing the complaint.
It is hereby ordered that the order so appealed from be and the same hereby is unanimously reversed on the law without costs, the motion is granted and the complaint is dismissed.
Memorandum: Plaintiffs commenced this action to recover damages for injuries sustained by Leonard D. Alnutt (plaintiff) while working on an electrical switch box at his place of employment. Defendant had been hired by plaintiff's employer to perform electrical work, and plaintiffs allege that plaintiff's injuries were the result of defendant's negligence. Supreme Court erred in denying defendant's motion seeking summary judgment dismissing the complaint on the ground that defendant owed no duty to plaintiff. Defendant established its entitlement to judgment as a matter of law "by demonstrating that it did not exercise supervisory control over the injured plaintiffs work, and that it neither created nor had actual or constructive knowledge of the allegedly dangerous condition" of the switch box (DeBlase v Herbert Constr. Co., 5 AD3d 624, 624 [2004]), and plaintiffs failed to raise a triable issue of fact (cf. Yong Ju Kim v Herbert Constr. Co., 275 AD2d 709, 713 [2000]). Present—Pigott, Jr., P.J., Scudder, Kehoe, Green and Hayes, JJ.