Hyman v. Queens County Bancorp, Inc.

OPINION OF THE COURT

Memorandum.

The order of the Appellate Division should be affirmed, with costs.

In this personal injury action, plaintiffs, responding to defendant’s motion for summary judgment, alleged that defendant’s premises violated city and state building code requirements regarding stairway handrails, relying on those alleged violations as evidence of a dangerous or defective condition on the premises. Plaintiffs claimed that the absence of a handrail on both sides of the stairway—the purported violation—was a proximate cause of plaintiff Alan Hyman’s fall down six or seven stairs.

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