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SUMMARY JUDGMENT PURSUANT TO THE DOCTRINE OF RES IPSA LOQUITUR WAS NOT WARRANTED BECAUSE EXCLUSIVE CONTROL WAS NOT DEMONSTRATED; SANCTIONS FOR THE LOSS OF THE LIGHT FIXTURE WHICH FELL ON PLAINTIFF WERE NOT WARRANTED BECAUSE THE BENT PIPE TO WHICH THE FIXTURE WAS ATTACHED WAS PRESERVED (SECOND DEPT).

The Second Department, reversing Supreme Court, determined summary judgment should not have been granted pursuant to the doctrine of res ipsa loquitur. Plaintiff was injured when a light fixture fell on him. The pipe to which the fixture was attached was bent and was preserved by the defendant. The light fixture, which was same as several others at the site, was not preserved. Because contractors were working at the site, and the pipe securing the light fixture was bent. it could not be said defendant exercised exclusive control over the fixture. The Second Department went on to find that sanctions for the loss of the light fixture were not warranted because the bent pipe was saved and the light fixture itself was not crucial evidence:

Res ipsa loquitur is a doctrine which is submitted to the finder of fact when the accident arises out of an event which ordinarily does not occur in the absence of negligence, the accident was caused by an agency or instrumentality within the exclusive control of the defendant, and it was not due to a voluntary action or contribution on the part of the plaintiff … . The Court of Appeals has held that “only in the rarest of res ipsa loquitur cases may a plaintiff win summary judgment or a directed verdict. That would happen only when the plaintiff’s circumstantial proof is so convincing and the defendant’s response so weak that the inference of defendant’s negligence is inescapable” … . Cantey v City of New York, 2020 NY Slip Op 03213, Second dept 6-10-20

 

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