Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, 2015

Ofori O. v. Roman Catholic Church of All Saints

Ofori O. v. Roman Catholic Church of All Saints
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York · Decided May 14, 2015
128 A.D.3d 483; 7 N.Y.S.3d 898
Ofori O. v. Roman Catholic Church of All Saints

Opinion

Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Manuel J. Mendez, J.), entered June 20, 2014, which granted the motion of defendant Roman Catholic Church of All Saints (the School), dismissing the complaint, unanimously reversed, on the law, without costs, and the motion denied.

In this action for personal injuries allegedly sustained by the infant plaintiff when a free-standing basketball hoop in de *484 fendant’s gymnasium fell on top of him, dismissal of the complaint was not warranted. The record presents triable issues of fact including whether defendants were negligent in permitting a broken basketball hoop to remain in the gymnasium where classes, such as plaintiffs, were held (see Llauger v Archdiocese of N.Y., 82 AD3d 656 [1st Dept 2011]). Concur— Mazzarelli, J.P., Friedman, Sweeny, Gische and Kapnick, JJ.

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