Kulchinsky v. Consumers Warehouse Ctr., Inc.
| Decision Date | 30 December 2015 |
| Citation | 21 N.Y.S.3d 721,134 A.D.3d 1068 |
| Parties | Joan KULCHINSKY, et al., appellants, v. CONSUMERS WAREHOUSE CENTER, INC., et al., respondents. |
| Court | New York Supreme Court — Appellate Division |
134 A.D.3d 1068
21 N.Y.S.3d 721
Joan KULCHINSKY, et al., appellants,
v.
CONSUMERS WAREHOUSE CENTER, INC., et al., respondents.
Supreme Court, Appellate Division, Second Department, New York.
Dec. 30, 2015.
Wickham, Bressler & Geasa, P.C., Mattituck, N.Y. (Eric J. Bressler of counsel), for appellants.
Tromello, McDonnell & Kehoe, Melville, N.Y. (Kevin P. Slattery of counsel), for respondents.
REINALDO E. RIVERA, J.P., CHERYL E. CHAMBERS, LEONARD B. AUSTIN, and SANDRA L. SGROI, JJ.
In an action to recover damages for personal injuries, etc.,
the plaintiffs appeal from an order of the Supreme Court, Suffolk County (Tarantino, Jr., J.), dated December 11, 2014, which granted the defendants' motion for summary judgment dismissing the complaint.
ORDERED that the order is affirmed, with costs.
The plaintiff Joan Kulchinsky (hereinafter the plaintiff), alleged that she slipped and fell on ice in a parking lot of a Consumers Warehouse Center store owned and operated by the defendants. The plaintiff, and her husband suing derivatively, commenced this action, inter alia, to recover damages for personal injuries. The defendants moved for summary judgment dismissing the complaint, and the Supreme Court granted the motion.
As the proponent of the motion for summary judgment, the defendants had the burden of establishing, prima facie, that they neither created the icy condition nor had actual or constructive notice of the condition (see Shea v. Massapequa Union Free Sch. Dist., 117 A.D.3d 817, 985 N.Y.S.2d 675 ; Smith v. Hariri Realty Assoc., Inc., 109 A.D.3d 897, 971 N.Y.S.2d 451 ; Silva–Carpanzano v. Schecter, 105 A.D.3d 1030, 1031, 963 N.Y.S.2d 389 ; Spinoccia v. Fairfield Bellmore Ave., LLC, 95 A.D.3d 993, 943 N.Y.S.2d 601 ). To provide constructive notice, "a defect must be visible and apparent and it must exist for a
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