Legal Opinion
Cristescu v. Gasparis
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Decided March 1, 2017No. 2016-00661PublishedCited by 2 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
In an action to recover damages for personal injuries, the plaintiff appeals from an order of the Supreme Court, Queens County (McDonald, J.), dated November 20, 2015, which granted the defendants’ motion for summary judgment dismissing the complaint.
Ordered that the order is reversed, on the law, with costs, and the defendants’ motion for summary judgment dismissing the complaint is denied.
The plaintiff allegedly was injured when he awoke in his apartment to find that his living room was on fire and he was forced to run through the flames to exit through the front door of the apartment. The…
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