Rodriguez v. Polakowski

— Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Jerome Gorski, J.), entered January 12, 1990, which upon a jury verdict, found in favor of defendant John Polakowski, doing business as Kirla Group, and dismissed the complaint, unanimously affirmed, without costs.

On the record, the jury could reasonably have concluded that plaintiff failed to meet her burden of demonstrating that defendant-landlord had actual prior notice of the allegedly defective condition of the bathroom ceiling. Plaintiff claimed that several months before the ceiling collapsed, the landlord had made an inspection of the…