Legal Opinion
Demaille v. Trump Castle Associates
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Decided May 31, 2001Published
1Opinion of the Court
—Judgment, Supreme *362Court, New York County (Alice Schlesinger, J.), entered September 14, 2000, which, upon a jury verdict, awarded judgment to plaintiff on liability, unanimously affirmed, without costs.
Plaintiff brings this action to recover for personal injuries sustained on October 2, 1994, when she slipped and fell on one of several puddles of partially melted ice on a marble floor in the Trump Plaza Hotel in Atlantic City.
“To constitute constructive notice, a defect must be visible and apparent and it must exist for a sufficient length of time prior to the accident to permit defendant’s…
2Cases cited4 opinions
- Gordon v. American Museum of Natural HistoryNew York Court of Appeals · 1986
- Sagorsky v. MalyonNew York Court of Appeals · 1954
- Strowman v. Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co.Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1998
- Salaam v. City of New YorkAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1996