Doyley v. Steiner

Order, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Alison Y. Tuitt, J.), entered April 9, 2012, which denied defendants Thomas D. Steiner and Maureen Ferguson’s motion for summary judgment dismissing the complaint and all cross claims as against them, affirmed, without costs.

Defendant property owners failed to establish, as a matter of law, that they had no duty to maintain the electrical shunts that defendant Con Edison placed across the sidewalk in front of their property to provide emergency power for the tenants residing there. We have generally held that an issue of fact exists whether such equipment…