BURLEIGH v. GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY


262 A.D.2d 774 (1999)

691 N.Y.S.2d 662

CHRISTOPHER BURLEIGH, Appellant, v. GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY, Respondent.

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

Decided June 10, 1999.


Yesawich Jr., J.

Plaintiff commenced this action to recover for injuries he sustained when he slipped and fell on a patch of ice on a sidewalk adjacent to defendant's facility. Relying on plaintiff's admission that he saw the condition of the sidewalk, including the ice, and decided to try to navigate it rather than use an alternate route, Supreme Court concluded that plaintiff assumed the risk as a matter of law and granted...

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