Legal Opinion

Bruno v. Heinrich

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York

Decided March 10, 1994PublishedCited by 1 opinion

1Opinion of the Court

—Order, Supreme Court, Nassau County (John S. Lockman, J.), entered December 12, 1991, which denied defendant-appellant’s motion for summary judgment pursuant to CPLR 3212 dismissing the complaint, unanimously affirmed, without costs.

Defendant-appellant has failed to establish as a matter of law that decedent’s conduct was an unforeseeable intervening act that constituted a superceding cause relieving him from any potential liability for allowing her to exit his car on a six-lane highway with no provision for pedestrian traffic (see, Rivera v New York City Tr. Auth., 77 NY2d 322; Kriz v…

2Cases cited3 opinions

  1. Rivera v. New York City Transit AuthorityNew York Court of Appeals · 1991
  2. Kush v. City of BuffaloNew York Court of Appeals · 1983
  3. Kriz v. SchumNew York Court of Appeals · 1989

3Cited by1 opinion

  1. Lopez v. GuillenAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 2019

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