Siciliano v. Garden of Eden, Inc.

Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Marilyn Shafer, J.), entered on or about January 9, 2004, which granted defendant-respondent’s motion for summary judgment dismissing the complaint as against it, unanimously affirmed, without costs.

Flaintiff alleges that while delivering large jugs of water to defendant, a gourmet food store, he slipped and fell on an accumulation of grease on the floor of defendant’s storeroom. Defendant showed, prima facie, that grease deliveries to its store are brought directly to and stored in its kitchen, which is some 15 to 20 feet down a corridor from the…