Legal Opinion
Hall v. Gaston
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Decided November 13, 1998PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
—Order unanimously reversed on the law without costs, motion granted and complaint dismissed. Memorandum: Supreme Court erred in denying defendants’ motion for summary judgment dismissing the complaint. Plaintiff alleges that she sustained injuries when she slipped and fell on an icy public sidewalk at a point where it crossed defendants’ driveway. Defendants, as the abutting landowners, met their initial burden of establishing that they are not liable “for the allegedly defective condition of the [sidewalk] in the absence of proof that defendant [s] created the condition or used the…
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