Chaney v. Abyssinian Baptist Church

Order, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Bertram Katz, J.), entered on or about April 30, 1996, which granted defendant’s motion for summary judgment dismissing the complaint in this slip-and-fall personal injury action, unanimously affirmed, without costs.

We agree with the IAS Court that to hold that defendant created a reasonably foreseeable hazard by providing an unsecured step stool for children to access a hallway water fountain would be to stretch the concept of foreseeability beyond acceptable limits. Certainly there is no evidence that defendant had actual notice of the water that had…