JONES v. COUNTY OF RENSSELAER


51 A.D.3d 1073 (2008)

856 N.Y.S.2d 717

VERNON JONES, Appellant, v. COUNTY OF RENSSELAER et al., Respondents.

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

Decided May 1, 2008.


Carpinello, J.

Plaintiff contends that defendants were improperly granted summary judgment in this negligence action arising out of his slip and fall while an inmate at the Rensselaer County jail. It is undisputed that plaintiff slipped on water that was on the floor just outside his cell. At a General Municipal Law § 50-h hearing, he testified that, based on a conversation with other inmates after the accident, "they" surmised that the water derived from a food...

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