KING v. NEW YORK CITY HOUS. AUTH.


235 A.D.2d 307 (1997)

653 N.Y.S.2d 5

Katherine King, Appellant, v. New York City Housing Authority, Respondent

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

January 23, 1997


It must be held, on constraint of Martinez v Lazaroff (48 N.Y.2d 819), that the landlord's alleged failure to provide cold water in plaintiff's kitchen was not a proximate cause of her slipping on water she was collecting in a pot in the bathroom. In that regard, it makes no difference whether the intervening act was plaintiff's or another's (see, Abreu v Stratford Realty Assocs., 208 A.D.2d 465

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