Ruffin v. Chase Manhattan Bank

Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Donna M. Mills, J.), entered June 16, 2008, which, in an action for personal injuries sustained in a fall on a staircase, insofar as appealed from, denied defendants-appellants’ motion for summary judgment dismissing the complaint as against them, affirmed, without costs.

Defendants’ argument that they are entitled to summary judgment on the basis of plaintiff’s deposition testimony that she does not know what caused her to fall places undue reliance on an isolated portion of plaintiffs testimony (see Shechter v City of New York, 17 AD3d 124, 124-125…