Santana v. City of New York
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
1Opinion of the Court
—Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Michael Stallman, J.), entered May 30, 2000, which denied defendant-appellant St. Paul School’s motion for summary judgment, unanimously reversed, on the law, without costs, the motion granted and the complaint dismissed. The Clerk is directed to enter judgment in favor of defendant-appellant dismissing the complaint as against it.
There was neither an allegation nor a showing that defendant’s special use of the public sidewalk in front of its school as a children’s playground caused the crack on which the infant plaintiff tripped and fell (see, McGee v…
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