Legal Opinion

Rivera v. Roman Catholic Church of St. Helena

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York

Decided February 13, 2014PublishedCited by 1 opinion

1Opinion of the Court

Order, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Norma Ruiz, J.), entered September 13, 2012, which granted defendants’ motion for summary judgment dismissing the complaint, unanimously affirmed, without costs.

Summary judgment was properly granted to defendants in this action where the infant plaintiff was injured when he collided with a stairway railing during a game of tag. Plaintiffs own testimony as to how the accident occurred demonstrates that no additional supervision could have prevented his injury (see Esponda v City of New York, 62 AD3d 458, 460 [1st Dept 2009]; see also Lizardo v Board of Educ.…

2Cases cited2 opinions

  1. Lizardo v. Board of EducationAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 2010
  2. Esponda v. City of New YorkAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 2009

3Cited by1 opinion

  1. Jorge C. v. City of New YorkAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 2015

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