Brown v. Howson

Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Shlomo S. Hagler, J.), entered October 25, 2013, which granted defendants’ motion for summary judgment dismissing the complaint, unanimously affirmed, without costs.

Defendants established prima facie that they had no notice of the alleged defective ceiling in the apartment in which plaintiff resided, by submitting building owner defendant David Howson’s testimony that he was never informed about cracks or any other defect in the ceiling and plaintiff’s testimony that she never informed building management or Howson of any such cracks (see Figueroa v…