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DEFENDANTS DEMONSTRATED THEY DID NOT HAVE NOTICE OF A DEFECTIVE MOVIE THEATER SEAT AND THE RES IPSA LOQUITUR DOCTRINE DID NOT APPLY BECAUSE SOMEONE OTHER THAN DEFENDANTS COULD HAVE DAMAGED THE SEAT (SECOND DEPT).

The Second Department, reversing Supreme Court, determined the defendants demonstrated it did not have notice of a defective seat in a movie theater and the res ipsa loquitur doctrine did not apply because the seat could have been caused by someone other than the defendants:

The defendants demonstrated, prima facie, that they neither created nor had actual or constructive notice of the defective condition of the subject seat … . In opposition, the plaintiff failed to raise a triable issue of fact as to whether the defendants created or had notice of the particular condition … .

The doctrine of res ipsa loquitur was not applicable because the evidence presented did not adequately exclude the chance that the seat had been damaged by someone other than the defendants … . Newisky v United Artists Kaufman Astoria 14 Regal Cinemas, 2018 NY Slip Op 06880, Second Dept 10-17-18

NEGLIGENCE (DEFENDANTS DEMONSTRATED THEY DID NOT HAVE NOTICE OF A DEFECTIVE MOVIE THEATER SEAT AND THE RES IPSA LOQUITUR DOCTRINE DID NOT APPLY BECAUSE SOMEONE OTHER THAN DEFENDANTS COULD HAVE DAMAGED THE SEAT (SECOND DEPT))/EVIDENCE (NEGLIGENCE, DEFENDANTS DEMONSTRATED THEY DID NOT HAVE NOTICE OF A DEFECTIVE MOVIE THEATER SEAT AND THE RES IPSA LOQUITUR DOCTRINE DID NOT APPLY BECAUSE SOMEONE OTHER THAN DEFENDANTS COULD HAVE DAMAGED THE SEAT (SECOND DEPT))/RES IPSA LOQUITUR  (DEFENDANTS DEMONSTRATED THEY DID NOT HAVE NOTICE OF A DEFECTIVE MOVIE THEATER SEAT AND THE RES IPSA LOQUITUR DOCTRINE DID NOT APPLY BECAUSE SOMEONE OTHER THAN DEFENDANTS COULD HAVE DAMAGED THE SEAT (SECOND DEPT))

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