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DEFENDANTS DID NOT DEMONSTRATE PLACEMENT OF A FLOWER POT NEAR THE BASKETBALL COURT DID NOT UNREASONABLY INCREASE THE INHERENT RISKS OF PLAYING BASKETBALL, SUMMARY JUDGMENT SHOULD NOT HAVE BEEN GRANTED.

The Second Department, reversing Supreme Court, determined defendant failed to make out a prima facie case warranting summary judgment. Plaintiff was injured playing basketball on defendant’s property when he fell on a flower pot which was near the post supporting the backboard. The evidence failed to eliminate a triable issue whether the placement of the flower pot unreasonably increased the inherent risks:

 

… [D]efendants failed to establish, prima facie, that the doctrine of primary assumption of the risk barred the plaintiff’s recovery. The evidence submitted by the defendants, including testimony as to the size and placement of the flowerpot in close proximity to the paved court, failed to eliminate a triable issue as to whether its placement unreasonably increased the inherent risks of the activity … . Moreover, contrary to their contention, the defendants failed to establish, prima facie, that they did not create or have actual or constructive notice of the alleged condition … .  Simone v Doscas, 2016 NY Slip Op 05709, 2nd Dept 8-3-16

NEGLIGENCE (DEFENDANTS DID NOT DEMONSTRATE PLACEMENT OF A FLOWER POT NEAR THE BASKETBALL COURT DID NOT UNREASONABLY INCREASE THE INHERENT RISKS OF PLAYING BASKETBALL, SUMMARY JUDGMENT SHOULD NOT HAVE BEEN GRANTED)/ASSUMPTION OF RISK (DEFENDANTS DID NOT DEMONSTRATE PLACEMENT OF A FLOWER POT NEAR THE BASKETBALL COURT DID NOT UNREASONABLY INCREASE THE INHERENT RISKS OF PLAYING BASKETBALL, SUMMARY JUDGMENT SHOULD NOT HAVE BEEN GRANTED)/BASKETBALL (ASSUMPTION OF RISK, DEFENDANTS DID NOT DEMONSTRATE PLACEMENT OF A FLOWER POT NEAR THE BASKETBALL COURT DID NOT UNREASONABLY INCREASE THE INHERENT RISKS OF PLAYING BASKETBALL, SUMMARY JUDGMENT SHOULD NOT HAVE BEEN GRANTED)

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