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TRIPPING OVER EDGE OF A RUG NOT ACTIONABLE, NO SHOWING RUG DEFECTIVE OR DANGEROUS.

The Fourth Department, reversing Supreme Court, determined defendant’s motion for summary judgment should have been granted in this slip and fall case. Although plaintiff’s foot apparently “picked up” the corner of a rug, there was no showing the rug was defective or dangerous:

Although the rug may not have been designed to be placed over another rug or the recessed mat system, the video of the incident, which was submitted in opposition to the motion, shows that decedent tripped over the front edge of the rug. There is no indication that the rug slipped, and there is no record evidence that the rug constituted a defective or dangerous condition at the time of the fall. We conclude that “the mere placement of the [rug] by the front door of the defendant’s premises was not an inherently dangerous condition” … . Slattery v Tops Mkts., LLC, 2017 NY Slip Op 01078, 4th Dept 2-10-17

NEGLIGENCE (TRIPPING OVER EDGE OF A RUG NOT ACTIONABLE, NO SHOWING RUG DEFECTIVE OR DANGEROUS)/SLIP AND FALL (TRIPPING OVER EDGE OF A RUG NOT ACTIONABLE, NO SHOWING RUG DEFECTIVE OR DANGEROUS)/RUGS (SLIP AND FALL, TRIPPING OVER EDGE OF A RUG NOT ACTIONABLE, NO SHOWING RUG DEFECTIVE OR DANGEROUS)

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