Rubin v. First Avenue Owners, Inc.

—Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Helen Freedman, J.), entered June 22, 1993, which dismissed the action against defendant, Susan Orsini Design Associates, and, after a jury verdict, awarded plaintiff $841,500, unanimously affirmed, without costs.

In this action seeking to recover damages for injuries sustained as a result of plaintiff’s trip and fall over a 12-inch high planter in the lobby of the apartment building in which plaintiff was a tenant, the trial court properly dismissed the action against the interior designer because there was no evidence that the specifications it…