Garcia v. Best Value Discount Corp.

Order, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Lucindo Suarez, J.), entered February 4, 2009, which denied defendant’s motion for summary judgment dismissing the complaint, unanimously affirmed, without costs.

Defendant failed to establish its prima facie entitlement to judgment as a matter of law in this action where plaintiff was injured when she tripped and fell over a open box of fluorescent light bulbs that was on the floor of defendant’s store. There are triable issues of fact concerning whether defendant violated its duty to maintain its premises in a reasonably safe condition (see Westbrook v WR…