Andrews v. New York City Housing Authority

In an action to recover damages for personal injuries and wrongful death, etc., the defendant appeals from an order of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Schmidt, J.), dated March 18, 2008, which denied its motion for summary judgment dismissing the complaint.

Ordered that the order is reversed, on the law, with costs, and the defendant’s motion for summary judgment dismissing the complaint is granted.

On April 30, 2003 the plaintiffs decedent was killed in an apartment fire. Thereafter, the decedent’s mother Brenda Andrews, as administrator of the decedent’s estate, on behalf of her other two…