Legal Opinion
Trainer v. City of New York
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Decided June 14, 2007PublishedCited by 13 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Robert D. Lippmann, J.), entered June 19, 2006, which granted defendant Transit Authority’s motion for summary judgment dismissing the complaint, unanimously affirmed, without costs.
Plaintiff, age 77, allegedly sustained personal injuries while disembarking a bus that had stopped away from the curb and had not engaged its kneeling device. A common carrier does have a duty to afford departing passengers a safe place and means to alight (see e.g. Blye v Manhattan & Bronx Surface Tr. Operating Auth., 124 AD2d 106 [1987], affd 72 NY2d 888 [1988]). Under the…
2Cases cited4 opinions
- Karoon v. New York City Transit AuthorityAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1997
- Blye v. Manhattan & Bronx Surface Transit Operating AuthorityAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1987
- Blye v. Manhattan & Bronx Surface Transit Operating AuthorityNew York Court of Appeals · 1988
- Carlino v. Triboro Coach Corp.Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 2005
3Cited by13 opinions
- Aburto v. City of New YorkAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 2012
- Kasper v. Metropolitan Transportation Authority Long Island BusAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 2011
- Lovato v. New York City Transit AuthorityAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 2008
- Luke v. Metropolitan Transportation AuthorityAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 2011
- Santiago v. New York City Transit AuthorityAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 2010
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