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THE LANDOWNER AND THE TENANT TAXI COMPANY HAD THE SAME PRINCIPAL, A HOSE WAS USED BY INDEPENDENT CONTRACTORS TO WASH THE TAXIS, PLAINTIFF ALLEGEDLY SLIPPED ON THE WATER FROM THE HOSE WHICH FROZE, THE LANDOWNER DID NOT ESTABLISH IT WAS AN OUT OF POSSESSION LANDLORD, THE LANDOWNER’S MOTION FOR SUMMARY JUDGMENT SHOULD NOT HAVE BEEN GRANTED (FIRST DEPT).

The First Department, over a dissent, reversing Supreme Court, determined the landowner was not entitled to summary judgment in this slip and fall case. The principal of the property owner, 514 West, is also the principal of the tenant, Style, a taxi company. Independent contractors used a hose to wash the cars. Water from the hose froze and plaintiff allegedly slipped and fell on the ice. The First Department noted the close connection between 514 West and Style and found that 514 West did not establish it was on out-of-possession landlord:

514 West, which owns the building adjacent to the roadway in which plaintiff slipped and fell on ice, failed to make a prima facie showing of its entitlement to summary judgment, since the evidence it submitted raises genuine issues of fact about whether it created the dangerous condition … . For example, its principal, who is also the principal of codefendant Style Management Co., Inc. (Style), the taxi company housed at the building owned by 514 West, admitted that there is a hose attached to the building, which the independent contractors who work for the taxi company would use to wash the cars. It is water from this hose, which pooled in the street and then froze, that plaintiff allegedly slipped on. “It is . . . a general rule that an abutting owner is liable if, by artificial means . . . water from the property is permitted to flow onto the public sidewalk where it freezes”… . 514 West asserts that Style operated the hose, not it, thus absolving it of liability. However, 514 West fails to establish that it is an out-of-possession landlord; indeed, given the very close connection between 514 West and Style, which, again, have the same principal, it is not possible on this record to determine, as a matter of law, that the former is without liability as a landowner. Malik v Style Mgt. Co. Inc., 2019 NY Slip Op 00372, First Dept 1-22-19

 

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