Cepeda v. KRF Realty LLC

Order, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Wilma Guzman, J.), entered March 4, 2016, which, among other things, granted defendant KR Realty LLC’s motion for summary judgment dismissing the complaint against it, and denied plaintiff’s cross motion for summary judgment against KR on the issue of liability, unanimously affirmed, without costs.

KR established that it was an out-of-possession landlord which, pursuant to its lease with the tenant, codefendant Bargain Team, Inc., was not responsible for removing snow or ice from the sidewalk of the premises where plaintiff allegedly-slipped and fell (see…