Leckanby v. Cohoes Community Center, Inc.

Crew III, J.P.

Appeal from an order of the Supreme Court (Teresi, J.), entered December 20, 2001 in Albany County, which denied defendant’s motion for summary judgment dismissing the complaint.

Defendant owns and operates a community center on real property located in the City of Cohoes, Albany County. A hill is situated at the rear of the property, rising from the base of the community center building up to a public pathway. On January 31, 1999, John Francis Leckanby, his brother and his cousin went to defendant’s property to snowboard on the hill in question. On Leckanby’s first ride down the…