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Caldwell v. S&S Levittown, LLC
70 A.D.3d 881
| N.Y. App. Div. | 2010
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In an action to recover damages for personal injuries, etc., the plaintiff Wendy Caldwell appeals, as limited by her brief, from so much of an order of the Supreme Court, Nassau County (Mahon, J), dated November 21, 2008, as, upon renewal, in effect, vacated so much of its prior order dated May 5, 2008, as denied that branch of the third-party defendant’s motion which was, in effect, for summary judgment dismissing the complaint and that branch of the defendant third-party plaintiffs cross motion which was for summary judgment dismissing the complaint and thereupon, granted those branches of the motion and cross motion.

Ordered that the order is reversed insofar as appealed from, on the law, with one bill of costs, and, upon renewal, so much of the order dated May 5, 2008, as denied that branch of the third-party defendant’s motion which was, in effect, for summary judgment dismissing the complaint and that branch of the defendant/third-party plaintiffs cross motion which was for summary judgment dismissing the complaint is adhered to.

On January 27, 2004, at approximately 12:30 p.m., the plaintiff Wendy Caldwell (hereinafter the plaintiff) allegedly slipped and fell on snow and/or ice in a parking lot located on the defendant’s premises as she was exiting her vehicle. Thereafter, the plaintiff and her husband, suing derivatively, commenced the present action against the owner of the premises, S&S Levittown, LLC (hereinafter S&S). The defendant subsequently commenced a third-party action against Melville Snow Contractors, Inc. (hereinafter Melville), which was the contractor it had retained to remove snow and ice from the premises.

After joinder of issue, Melville moved, inter alia, in effect, for summary judgment dismissing the complaint based on the “storm in progress” doctrine, and S&S cross-moved, inter alia, for summary judgment dismissing the complaint on the same ground.

S&S and Melville failed to establish, as a matter of law, that the plaintiff slipped and fell on snow or ice that fell during the storm (see Winegrad v New York Univ. Med. Ctr., 64 NY2d 851, *882853 [1985]). Thus, the sufficiency of the plaintiffs opposition papers need not be addressed (see Alvarez v Prospect Hosp., 68 NY2d 320, 324 [1986]). Accordingly, upon renewal, the Supreme Court should have adhered to its original determination denying that branch of Melville’s motion which was, in effect, for summary judgment dismissing the complaint and that branch of S&S’s cross motion which was for summary judgment dismissing the complaint. Fisher, J.P., Miller, Eng and Hall, JJ., concur.

Case Details

Case Name: Caldwell v. S&S Levittown, LLC
Court Name: Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Date Published: Feb 16, 2010
Citation: 70 A.D.3d 881
Court Abbreviation: N.Y. App. Div.
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