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QUESTION OF FACT WHETHER CITY HAD PRIOR WRITTEN NOTICE OF THE DEFECTS IN THE SIDEWALK AND RAILING WHERE PLAINTIFF’S DECEDENT FELL INTO A GORGE, CITY’S MOTION FOR SUMMARY JUDGMENT PROPERLY DENIED (THIRD DEPT).

The Third Department determined the city’s motion for summary judgment in this slip and fall case was properly denied. Plaintiff’s decedent fell from a paved trail into a gorge. There were questions of fact about whether the city had prior written notice of the broken sidewalk and railing:

… [P]laintiff produced a police investigation report concluding that decedent had fallen along a part of the trail with multiple defects, including broken pavement, a “bent/unsecured hand railing . . . and huge gap spaces in sidewalk edge adjacent to [the] cliff side edge.” Plaintiff also demonstrated that, by the time of the fall, the Department of Public Works had received numerous written complaints about the condition of the trail. General complaints and the subsequent efforts of department personnel to evaluate the condition of the trail did not “obviate the need for prior written notice” of the particular defects implicated in decedent’s fall … . That said, one of the written complaints was a January 2012 email forwarded to an Assistant Superintendent of Public Works that was, according to his testimony, “probably” shared with the Superintendent of Public Works, and attached to the email is a map with photographs that appear to reference the defects in the area where decedent fell. Van Wageningen v City of Ithaca, 2019 NY Slip Op 00343, Third Dept 1-17-19

 

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