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GAP IN BATHROOM STALL DOOR AT MCDONALD’S RESTAURANT, IN WHICH INFANT PLAINTIFF’S FINGER WAS PINCHED AND PARTIALLY SEVERED WHEN THE DOOR SLAMMED SHUT, WAS NOT UNREASONABLY DANGEROUS AND WAS OPEN AND OBVIOUS, TWO-JUSTICE DISSENT (FOURTH DEPT).

The Fourth Department, over a two-justice dissent, determined that the gap in a bathroom stall door at a McDonald’s restaurant, in which infant plaintiff’s finger was pinched and partially severed when her brother slammed the door, was not an unreasonably dangerous condition. In addition, the court found the condition was open and obvious and there was no duty to warn. The dissent noted the testimony that McDonald’s now installs finger guards which raised questions of fact whether defendants were on notice the door presented an unreasonably dangerous condition:

Defendants met their initial burden by establishing that the stall door did not constitute an unreasonably dangerous condition … , and plaintiffs failed to raise a triable issue of fact in response … . The affidavit of plaintiffs’ expert was ” speculative and not sufficiently probative to defeat defendant[s’] motion for summary judgment’ ” … . Contrary to plaintiffs’ further contention, we conclude that the alleged hazard posed by the bathroom stall door was also open and obvious, and therefore defendants had no duty to warn that the door presented a finger-pinching hazard … . Christopher J.G. v Derico of E. Amherst Corp., 2019 NY Slip Op 04857, Fourth Dept 6-14-19

 

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