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Tenant’s Common Law Duty to Keep Sidewalk on the Premises Safe Applies Even Though Another Party Agreed to Maintain the Sidewalk in Its Lease

The First Department noted that a tenant has a common law duty to keep a sidewalk on the leased premises safe, even if another party is obligated to maintain the sidewalk in its lease. Plaintiff slipped and fell on ice on the sidewalk:

It is well established that a tenant owes a common-law duty of reasonable care to maintain the demised premises in a reasonably safe condition, independent of any obligation that might be imposed by the existence of a lease … . The fact that nonparty C.L.B. #6 Inc. (CLB#6) was required to maintain the sidewalk under its lease with the landlord is irrelevant to CLB’s common-law duty to maintain the demised premises … . Additionally, whether a gas station was also a tenant of the premises is also irrelevant to CLB’s duty … . Because CLB never produced the lease between itself and CLB#6, which might reflect whether the subject sidewalk was part of the demised premises, it failed to establish prima facie that it owed no duty to maintain the subject sidewalk … . Williams v Esor Realty Co, 2014 NY Slip Op 03343, 1st Dept 5-8-14

 

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