CAPELLO v. VILL. OF SUFFERN


232 A.D.2d 599 (1996)

648 N.Y.S.2d 699

Peter Capello, Respondent, v. Village of Suffern, Appellant

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, Second Department.

October 28, 1996


Ordered that the order is reversed, on the law, with costs, the motion is granted, and the complaint is dismissed.

"As a general rule, [sports] participants properly may be held to have consented, by their participation, to those injury-causing events which are known, apparent, or are reasonably foreseeable consequences of the participation" (Turcotte v Fell, 68 N.Y.2d 432, 439; Egeth v County of Westchester,

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