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UTILITY BOX RECESSED IN CITY SIDEWALK WAS OPEN AND OBVIOUS AND NOT INHERENTLY DANGEROUS, DEFENDANTS’ MOTION FOR SUMMARY JUDGMENT IN THIS SLIP AND FALL CASE PROPERLY GRANTED (SECOND DEPT).

The Second Department determined the utility box recessed into a city sidewalk was open and obvious and was not inherently dangerous. Defendants were therefore entitled to summary judgment in this slip and fall case:

There is ” no duty to protect against an open and obvious condition provided that, as a matter of law, the condition is not inherently dangerous'” … . “While the issue of whether a hazard is latent or open and obvious is generally fact-specific and thus usually a jury question, a court may determine that a risk was open and obvious as a matter of law when the established facts compel that conclusion, and may do so on the basis of clear and undisputed evidence” … . “Whether a hazard is open and obvious cannot be divorced from the surrounding circumstances” … .Similarly, the determination of whether “a condition is not inherently dangerous . . . depends on the totality of the specific facts of each case”… .

Here, contrary to the plaintiff’s contention, each of the defendants established, prima facie, that the complained-of condition “was open and obvious, as it was not only readily observable by those employing the reasonable use of their senses, but was known to [the decedent] prior to the accident and, as a matter of law, was not inherently dangerous” … . Graffino v City of New York, 2018 NY Slip Op 04702, Second Dept 6-27-18

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