Deangelis v. Izzo

Appeal from that part of an order of the Supreme Court (Doran, J.), entered June 24, 1992 in Schenectady County, which denied defendants’ motion for summary judgment dismissing the complaint.

This action has its genesis in an accident which occurred at the Academy of Okinawan Karate, a school owned by defendants John Izzo and Bert Randio. As part of his eighth half-hour semiprivate karate lesson — the first seven consisted of push-ups, sit-ups and instruction in basic karate moves or stances — at the Academy, and while under the instruction of defendant Anthony Fontanelli, plaintiff engaged in…