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DEFENDANT DEMONSTRATED IT DID NOT HAVE CONSTRUCTIVE NOTICE OF THE WET CONDITION WHICH ALLEGEDLY CAUSED PLAINTIFF’S SLIP AND FALL (FIRST DEPT).

The First Department, reversing Supreme Court, determined defendant demonstrated it did not have constructive notice of the wet condition which allegedly caused plaintiff’s slip and fall:

Defendant demonstrated prima facie that it did not have actual or constructive notice of the dangerous condition by producing evidence of its maintenance activities on the day of the accident, specifically, that the wet condition did not exist when the stairs were cleaned by the porter less than three hours before plaintiff fell … , and that there were no complaints about a wet condition on the stairs in the morning prior to her accident … . Defendant was not required to produce a written schedule or log of its cleaning activities; the unrefuted testimony of its porter was sufficient. The porter’s testimony also established that there was a reasonable cleaning schedule in place that addressed the alleged ongoing and recurring condition … .

Plaintiff failed to raise an issue of fact concerning who created the wet condition and when … . Plaintiff presented no evidence that the ongoing and recurring condition was routinely left unaddressed by defendant, nor did she raise a factual issue that defendant’s cleaning routine “was manifestly unreasonable so as to require altering it” … . Hartley v Burnside Hous. Dev. Fund Corp., 2022 NY Slip Op 06065, First Dept 10-27-22

Practice Point: The defendant demonstrated it did not have constructive knowledge of the wet condition alleged to have cause plaintiff’s slip and fall by showing the stairs were cleaned three hours before the fall and no one had complained about the wet condition in the morning prior to the fall.

 

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