Legal Opinion
Butler v. City of Gloversville
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Decided June 5, 2008PublishedCited by 3 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtKane, J.
Appeal from an order of the Supreme Court (Aulisi, J.), entered May 24, 2007 in Fulton County, which denied defendants’ motions for summary judgment dismissing the complaint.
In June 2001, plaintiff Rachael J. Butler (born in 1991) (hereinafter the child) was playing at a playground near her home. As she sat at the top of the slide, her older sister gave her a push, causing the child to fall over the side of the slide and land on the ground. Plaintiffs commenced this action to recover for injuries to the child’s femur and clavicle which were broken as a result of her fall. After discovery, all…
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