Holland-Smith v. Edwards

Appeal from an order of the Supreme Court (Demarest, J.), entered December 30, 2011 in St. Lawrence County, which granted a motion by defendants Dennis L. Edwards and Tammy Groves for summary judgment dismissing the complaint against them.

Plaintiff Melinda Holland-Smith (hereinafter plaintiff) and her husband, derivatively, commenced this action seeking damages for injuries allegedly sustained by plaintiff when she stepped in a pothole in an alley located between Clinton Street and a municipal parking lot in the Village of Gouverneur, St. Lawrence County. The alley was used primarily for…