Case Name: Dean Dowdy, Respondent, v. New York Health and Racquet Club, Appellant
Court: New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1996-01-09
Citations: 223 A.D.2d 382
Docket Number: 
Parties: Dean Dowdy, Respondent, v New York Health and Racquet Club, Appellant.
Judges: 
Reporter: Appellate Division Reports
Volume: 223
Pages: 382–383

Head Matter:
Dean Dowdy, Respondent, v New York Health and Racquet Club, Appellant.
[636 NYS2d 297]

Opinion:
Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Diane Lebedeff, J.), entered July 19, 1995, which, to the extent appealed from, denied defendant's motion for summary judgment dismissing the complaint, unanimously affirmed, without costs.
Summary judgment was properly denied since issues of fact exist as to, inter alia, whether the alleged negligent supervision by a karate instructor, an employee of defendant, was a breach of defendant's duty of care and to what extent, if any, plaintiff assumed the risk of injury by regularly partaking in the organized sparring sessions, which were conducted on a hard and allegedly slippery gym floor (Radwaner v USTA Natl. Tennis Ctr., 189 AD2d 605, 605-606; see, Benitez v New York City Bd. of Educ., 73 NY2d 650, 658, quoting McGee v Board of Educ., 16 AD2d 99, 102, lv denied 13 NY2d 596). Concur—Ellerin, J. P., Rubin, Nardelli, Tom and Mazzarelli, JJ.