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RIVERS v. NEW YORK CITY HOUSING AUTHORITY

264 A.D.2d 342 (1999)

694 N.Y.S.2d 57

CHRISTOPHER RIVERS et al., Respondents, v. NEW YORK CITY HOUSING AUTHORITY, Appellant. (And a Third-Party Action.) CHRISTOPHER RIVERS et al., Appellants, v. NEW YORK CITY HOUSING AUTHORITY, Respondent. (And a Third-Party Action.)

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

Decided August 19, 1999.

In denying this summary judgment motion, the IAS Court took judicial notice that pit bulls by nature are inherently dangerous and held that defendant landlord could be held strictly liable for injuries to an infant tenant inflicted by a pit bull which had not displayed any signs of vicious or violent behavior prior to the incident.

Initially, we note that the court erred in taking judicial notice of the vicious nature of pit bulls (see, Carter v Metro N. Assocs...

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