Legal Opinion
Finnegan v. Staten Island Rapid Transit Operating Authority
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Decided June 22, 1998PublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
—In a negligence action to recover damages for personal injuries, the plaintiff appeals from an order of the Supreme Court, Richmond County (Cusick, J.), dated March 27, 1997, which granted the defendants’ motion for summary judgment dismissing the complaint.
Ordered that the order is affirmed, with costs.
The plaintiff allegedly sustained injuries on the defendants’ train platform when he slipped on a liquid that apparently leaked from a garbage can, and then cut his hand on the metal rim of the garbage can when he tried to halt his fall. The plaintiff contends that the Supreme Court erred in…
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