Court Opinion

ID: 6027335
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-01-13 12:28:49.98936+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T08:51:04.401916
License: Public Domain

—Order unanimously affirmed without costs. Memorandum: Supreme Court properly denied that part of defendants’ motion for summary judgment dismissing the Labor Law § 241 (6) and common-law negligence causes of action against defendant John Neubauer. Although defendants met their initial burden, plaintiff raised issues of fact precluding summary judgment with respect to those causes of *1015action (see, Zuckerman v City of New York, 49 NY2d 557, 562). While it is undisputed that the worksite at which plaintiff was excavating was located at defendants’ residence, there is sharply conflicting evidence regarding the nature and character of John Neubauer’s participation in the excavation efforts. We conclude that there are issues of fact whether John Neubauer controlled or supervised plaintiff’s work, thereby precluding summary judgment not only on the Labor Law cause of action but also on the common-law negligence cause of action (see, Young v Krawczyk, 223 AD2d 966, 967-968; Maracle v Di-Franco, 197 AD2d 877). (Appeal from Order of Supreme Court, Onondaga County, Mordue, J. — Summary Judgment.) Present — Green, J. P., Pine, Hayes, Callahan and Fallon, JJ.