Federico v. City of Mechanicville

Appeal from an order of the Supreme Court (Brown J.), entered November 18, 1987 in Saratoga County, which granted defendants’ motion for summary judgment dismissing the complaint.

Plaintiff Erin Federico (hereinafter plaintiff) was injured on January 4, 1986 when she fell on a patch of ice which had formed on a public sidewalk on Park Avenue in the City of Mechanicville, Saratoga County. The building adjacent to the sidewalk where she fell formerly contained a clothing store, but was vacant after having been gutted by a fire in February 1984. The city’s Department of Public Works had boarded…