Watson v. City of New York

Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Eugene Nardelli, J.), entered July 9, 1990, which, insofar as appealed from, granted the motion of defendant New York City Housing Authority for costs and attorney’s fees to the extent of imposing a sanction on plaintiffs’ attorney of $2000, unanimously reversed, to the extent appealed from, on the *127law, the facts and in the exercise of discretion, and the motion denied, without costs.

The infant claimant was injured in November, 1988 when she was burned by hot water shooting from an allegedly defective water system in an apartment on Convent Avenue in…