According to the complaint, plaintiff slipped and fell on a public sidewalk. Inasmuch as defendants-respondents, at the time, were under no statutory obligation to maintain the sidewalk and there is no evidence that they created the alleged hazard or made special use of the area in question, there exists no basis to sustain the action as against them (see Muniz v Bacchus,
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