Case Name: Marquita Zimmerman, Respondent, v. Skate Key Roller Rink, Inc., Appellant
Court: New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1997-09-18
Citations: 242 A.D.2d 469
Docket Number: 
Parties: Marquita Zimmerman, Respondent, v Skate Key Roller Rink, Inc., Appellant.
Judges: 
Reporter: Appellate Division Reports
Volume: 242
Pages: 469–469

Head Matter:
Marquita Zimmerman, Respondent, v Skate Key Roller Rink, Inc., Appellant.
[662 NYS2d 308]

Opinion:
Order, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Howard Silver, J.), entered February 25, 1997, which denied defendant's motion for summary judgment, unanimously affirmed, without costs.
The motion was properly denied on the ground that there is an issue of fact as to whether defendant rented plaintiff a defective pair of roller skates. The expert report, opining that the cause of the skate wheel sticking was debris picked up while plaintiff was skating is inconclusive, and even the expert, who never examined the allegedly defective skate, did not presume to make "a precise determination of the failure without the skate involved". To what extent, if any, defendant should be relieved of liability because of plaintiffs conduct after noticing the defect is a question of comparative negligence that should be left to the jury (see, Turcotte v Fell, 68 NY2d 432, 437-438). Concur—Rosenberger, J. P., Wallach, Rubin, Tom and Colabella, JJ.