Griffith v. 505 West 142nd Street Housing Development Fund Corp.

—Order, Supreme Court, Bronx County (George Friedman, J.), entered June 3, 1999, which, in an action by a tenant’s employee for personal injuries sustained when he slipped in a puddle of water on the leased premises, denied defendants’ motion for summary judgment dismissing the complaint, unanimously affirmed, without costs.

With respect to the defendant who admits ownership of the premises, issues of fact exist as to whether the ceiling was leaky, whether defendant had notice of the leaks, and, if so, whether it had an obligation to repair the ceiling, raised by deposition testimony that the…