Stepan v. Monkey Bar L.P.
Cases that cite this one
4 later published cases cite this decision.
- Jahn v. SH Entertainment, LLC (Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York 2014)
- Jahn v. SH Entertainment, LLC (Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York 2014)
- Adingra v. Henry Street Settlement (Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York 2006)
- Gloria v. MGM Emerald Enterprises, Inc. (Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York 2002)
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Opinion of the Court
Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Edward Lehner, J.), entered January 19, 2000, which, in an action for personal injuries sustained in a slip and fall in defendant’s restaurant, granted defendant’s motion for summary judgment dismissing the complaint, unanimously affirmed, without costs.
There is no evidence that would permit an inference that the ice or wetness on which plaintiff slipped was created by defendant’s employees or had been on the floor of defendant’s crowded restaurant for a sufficient length of time to permit defendant’s employees to discover and remedy it. It was incumbent on plaintiff to produce such evidence in view of defendant’s bar manager’s uncontradicted deposition testimony that on the night of the accident there were no complaints about ice or spills on the floor near where plaintiff fell and that he inspected the floor on a regular basis and had it cleaned as necessary. Absent such evidence, the complaint was properly
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