Legal Opinion
Trincere v. County of Suffolk
New York Court of Appeals
Decided October 21, 1997PublishedCited by 521 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
Memorandum.
The order of the Appellate Division should be affirmed, with costs.
In the daylight hours of March 1991, plaintiff walked to the north side entrance of the H. Lee Dennison Building in Hauppauge, New York. She ascended the steps from the parking lot to a plaza area where she stumbled and fell over a cement slab that was elevated at an angle "a little over a half-inch above the surrounding paving slabs.” The issue on this appeal is whether a defect consisting of a one-half inch elevation of a cement slab in the plaza area of a municipal building is nonactionable as…
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