BORRA v. WALDEN BOOKS, INC.


298 A.D.2d 542 (2002)

748 N.Y.S.2d 670

ANN BORRA, Respondent, v. WALDEN BOOKS, INC., Appellant.

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

Decided October 28, 2002.


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

The plaintiff tripped and fell over a footstool in an aisle in the defendant's book store. The plaintiff testified at her deposition that she did not observe the footstool before the accident.

The record establishes that the footstool over which the plaintiff tripped and fell was readily observable by the reasonable use of one's senses; therefore...

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