Gardella v. Esposito Foods, Inc.
| Decision Date | 18 January 2011 |
| Citation | 914 N.Y.S.2d 678,80 A.D.3d 660 |
| Parties | John P. GARDELLA, appellant, v. ESPOSITO FOODS, INC., et al., respondents. |
| Court | New York Supreme Court — Appellate Division |
Weiss & Rosenbloom, P.C., New York, N.Y. (Erik L. Gray of counsel), for appellant.
Charles J. Siegel, New York, N.Y. (Alfred T. Lewyn of counsel), for respondents.
In an action to recover damages for personal injuries, the plaintiff appeals from an order of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Starkey, J.), dated December 21, 2009, which denied his motion for summary judgment on the issue of liability.
ORDERED that the order is affirmed, with costs.
The plaintiff failed to establish his prima facie entitlement to judgment as a matter of law on the issue of liability ( see Alvarez v. Prospect Hosp., 68 N.Y.2d 320, 508 N.Y.S.2d 923, 501 N.E.2d 572). "There can be more than one proximate cause of an accident" ( Cox v. Nunez, 23 A.D.3d 427, 427, 805 N.Y.S.2d 604; see Topalis v. Zwolski, 76 A.D.3d 524, 906 N.Y.S.2d 317; Todd v. Godek, 71 A.D.3d 872, 872, 895 N.Y.S.2d 861). Under the circumstances here, even if the defendant driver violated Vehicle and Traffic Law §§ 1143 and 1211(a), the bare affidavit of the plaintiff did not establish, as a matter of law, the plaintiff's freedom from comparative negligence ( see generally Cali v. Mustafa, 68 A.D.3d 700, 701, 888 N.Y.S.2d 912; cf. Sanabria v. Paduch, 61 A.D.3d 839, 876 N.Y.S.2d 874).
Accordingly, the Supreme Court correctly denied the plaintiff's motion for summary judgment on the issue of liability.
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