Grivas v. Grivas
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
Rubin, J.
On May 9, 1981, the infant plaintiff (who was approximately 2 Vi years old) and her younger brother were playing with a ball in the backyard of their parents’ house. The defendant, the children’s mother, was mowing the lawn in the yard with an electric powered lawn mower. Upon hearing the telephone ring, the defendant left the lawn mower still running when she went inside the house; the defendant did not instruct her children to stay away from the lawn mower. While the defendant was talking on the telephone, the infant plaintiff went to retrieve her ball, which…
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