Stepan v. Monkey Bar L.P.

Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Edward Lehner, J.), entered January 19, 2000, which, in an action for personal injuries sustained in a slip and fall in defendant’s restaurant, granted defendant’s motion for summary judgment dismissing the complaint, unanimously affirmed, without costs.

There is no evidence that would permit an inference that the ice or wetness on which plaintiff slipped was created by defendant’s employees or had been on the floor of defendant’s crowded restaurant for a sufficient length of time to permit defendant’s employees to discover and remedy it. It was incumbent…