Corbally v. Sikras Realty Co.

Order of the Supreme Court, New York County (Shirley Fingerhood, J.), entered on or about March 16, 1989, which denied defendant’s motion for summary judgment, unanimously affirmed, with costs.

In this personal injury action arising out of the allegedly negligent hiring and retention of an employee, the record reveals factual questions concerning the employee’s immediately prior employment, and the circumstances surrounding his termination there, which information was apparently never explored in even a routine background check at the time of his hiring. Furthermore, defendant’s affiant, who…