Legal Opinion
Velez v. New York City Housing Authority
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Decided January 3, 2012PublishedCited by 6 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Defendant failed to establish its entitlement to judgment as a matter of law as there are questions regarding whether defendant created the condition upon which plaintiff slipped. Although there was no direct evidence that defendant’s custodian mopped the stairs shortly before the accident and the custodian did not recall whether he mopped the stairs on the day of the accident, plaintiff and his uncle testified that the wet substance in the area where plaintiff slipped appeared to be a cleaning agent, and the custodian was the person solely responsible for mopping the stairs (see Healy v ARP…
2Cases cited2 opinions
- Phillips v. Bronx Lebanon HospitalAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 2000
- Healy v. ARP Cable, Inc.Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 2002
3Cited by6 opinions
- DiVetri v. ABM Janitorial Service, Inc.Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 2014
- Levine v. G.F. Holding, Inc.Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 2016
- Tucker v. New York City Housing AuthorityAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 2015
- Bruce v. Edgewater Indus. Park, LLCAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 2019
- Grover v. 291 Marion Realty Co.Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 2017
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