Taveras v. Catalano

In an action to recover damages for personal injuries, etc., the plaintiffs appeal from an order of the Supreme Court, Queens County (Hart, J.), dated July 25, 2002, which granted the defendants’ motion for summary judgment dismissing the complaint.

Ordered that the order is affirmed, with costs.

*311Under the circumstances of this case, the defendant Carmine Catalano did not have a duty to hold the ladder upon which his son-in-law, the plaintiff Michael Taveras, was standing to perform certain maintenance repairs on a house owned by the defendants (see Nallan v Helmsley-Spear, Inc., 50 NY2d 507,…