Bonfrisco v. Marlib Corp.

Judgment unanimously reversed, on the law, with $50 costs and disbursements to the defendant-appellant, and the complaint dismissed. While an alteration of the condition of the sidewalk may have taken place following the snow removal, there was no evidence that the defendant-appellant’s cleaning operation either caused or created the two-foot square patch of thin ice upon which the plaintiff slipped. The claim of increased hazard, moreover, is not supported by the evidence that as an additional precaution the entire sidewalk had been salted down. It may well be that the patch of thin ice was…