Hotaling v. City of New York

*397Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Debra A. James, J.), entered September 12, 2006, upon a jury verdict in favor of plaintiffs and against defendants, unanimously reversed, on the law, without costs, and the complaint dismissed.

Plaintiff Christopher Hotaling was severely injured while employed as a guidance counselor at Martin Luther King, Jr. High School in Manhattan, when he was hit in the head with a door while in the process of exiting the building for a fire drill. He had walked through the swinging door on the left side of a double doorway leading to a stairwell, and, as he…