Giotto v. Gaetano

*979Order reversed on the law without costs, motion granted and complaint dismissed. Memorandum: Plaintiff brought this action to recover damages for personal injuries sustained when she slipped and fell on snow that had accumulated on a public sidewalk abutting defendants’ premises. Supreme Court should have granted defendants’ motion for summary judgment dismissing the complaint. In the absence of explicit language in a statute, charter, or ordinance imposing liability upon the abutting property owner for injuries to a pedestrian, the abutting property owner is not liable for the failure to…