Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, 1998

Napoli v. Transervice Lease Corp.

Napoli v. Transervice Lease Corp.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York · Decided May 4, 1998
250 A.D.2d 580; 671 N.Y.S.2d 686; 1998 N.Y. App. Div. LEXIS 4939
Napoli v. Transervice Lease Corp.

Opinion of the Court

—In an action to recover damages for personal injuries, the third-party defendant Canada Dry-Bottling Co. of New York, Inc., appeals from an order of the Supreme Court, Queens County (Lisa, J.), dated May 23, 1997, which denied its motion for summary judgment dismissing the complaint and third-party complaint.

Ordered that the order is reversed, on the law, with costs, the motion is granted, and the complaint and third-party complaint are dismissed.

The appellant met its initial burden of demonstrating that it *581and the defendant Transervice Lease Corp. (hereinafter Transervice) lacked constructive notice of the alleged hazardous condition as a matter of law (see, Giacomontonio v Incorporated Vil. of Val. Stream, 224 AD2d 580). In opposing the motion, the plaintiff failed to establish the existence of material questions of fact with respect to Transervice or the appellant having had constructive notice of the condition. Therefore, the appellant’s motion for summary judgment dismissing the complaint and third-party complaint should have been granted. Miller, J. P., Joy, Friedmann and McGinity, JJ., concur.

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