Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, 2006

Spalding v. Toomer

Spalding v. Toomer
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York · Decided January 10, 2006
25 A.D.3d 373; 806 N.Y.S.2d 871
Spalding v. Toomer

Opinion of the Court

Order, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Betty Owen Stinson, J.), entered on or about January 12, 2005, which, in an action for personal injuries by a tenant against her landlord, granted defendant’s motion for summary judgment dismissing the complaint, unanimously affirmed, without costs.

Plaintiff claims that when she rested her foot on a baseboard radiator, she cut her toe on a small piece of protruding wire, ultimately resulting in the amputation of her leg below the knee. The action was properly dismissed upon a record establishing as a matter of law that, in the circumstances presented, the *374protruding wire was not a dangerous condition. Concur—Mazzarelli, J.P., Andrias, Sullivan, Williams and Malone, JJ.

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