Solazzo v. New York City Transit Authority
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
1Opinion of the Court
Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Robert D. Lippmann, J.), entered October 1, 2003, which granted the motion of defendants Transit Authority and Metropolitan Transportation Authority for summary judgment dismissing the complaint, affirmed, without costs.
Plaintiff contends that defendants are liable as property owners because he fell on the wet, slippery station floor during an ongoing winter storm. Generally, however, property owners cannot be held liable for a fall caused by a winter storm while the storm is in progress, or for a reasonable time thereafter (Valentine v City of New York,…
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