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THE METEOROLOGICAL DATA WAS NOT SWORN TO; DEFENDANTS THEREFORE DID NOT DEMONSTRATE THERE WAS A STORM IN PROGRESS IN THIS SLIP AND FALL CASE (FIRST DEPT).

The First Department, reversing Supreme Court, determined defendant’s motion for summary judgment in this slip and fall case should not have been granted. The defendants asserted the storm in progress defense, but the meteorological data was not in admissible form:

In this action where plaintiff alleges that he was injured after he fell on a snowy or icy condition on defendants’ driveway, defendants failed to meet their prima facie burden of establishing entitlement to judgment as a matter of law. The meteorologists’ reports relied upon by defendants were not in admissible form … . The reports contain no jurat, stamp of a notary public, or any other indication that the experts were actually sworn … .

In any event, contrary to defendants’ contention, the testimony of the parties alone did not establish that the snowstorm was still in progress at the time of the accident, and was therefore insufficient to avail them of the storm in progress defense … . Morales v Gross, 2021 NY Slip Op 00632, First Dept 2-4-21

 

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