Legal Opinion
Fernandez v. City of New York
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Decided May 17, 2011PublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Cynthia S. Kern, J), entered March 11, 2010, which, in an action for personal injuries allegedly sustained when a desk drawer fell on plaintiff police officer’s knee and foot as she worked at a desk at the precinct, granted defendants’ motion for summary judgment dismissing the complaint, unanimously affirmed, without costs.
Defendants established their entitlement to judgment as a *596matter of law by showing that they could not have known that the track of the drawer was not secured or that the drawer was likely to fall. The evidence demonstrated that the…
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