Legal Opinion

Perez v. Gasho of Japan, Inc.

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

Decided February 4, 2016No. 112 306126/11Published

1Opinion of the Court

Order, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Sharon A.M. Aarons, J.), entered January 9, 2014, which granted defendants’ motion for summary judgment dismissing the complaint, unanimously affirmed, without costs.

Dismissal of the complaint was warranted in this action where plaintiffs allege that infant plaintiff tripped over a bump in a carpet runner in defendants’ restaurant. The record shows that the subject defect was trivial and not actionable, where infant plaintiff’s mother described the runner as being “bunched up . . .a little,” with “a little lump” (see Hutchinson v Sheridan Hill House Corp.,…

2Cases cited3 opinions

  1. Trincere v. County of SuffolkNew York Court of Appeals · 1997
  2. Hutchinson v. Sheridan Hill House Corp.New York Court of Appeals · 2015
  3. Kwitny v. Westchester Towers Owners Corp.Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 2008

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