Seaman v. City of New York

—Judgment, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Anne Targum, J.), entered September 12, 2000, which dismissed the complaint upon defendant’s motion for a directed verdict at the close of plaintiffs case, unanimously reversed, on the law, without costs, the complaint reinstated and the matter remanded for a new trial.

The trial court erred, in this slip and fall matter, in directing a verdict in favor of defendant at the close of plaintiffs case. When plaintiffs evidence is accorded its proper treatment, that is, accepted as true and given every favorable inference, it provides a sufficient basis for…