LATIMER v. CITY OF NEW YORK

12642, 21463/11.

118 A.D.3d 420 (2014)

987 N.Y.S.2d 58

2014 NY Slip Op 3954

JOSHUA LATIMER, Respondent, v. CITY OF NEW YORK, Appellant.

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

Decided June 3, 2014.


Plaintiff was having a football catch with a friend on the handball courts at the Jerome Playground South. While running, he tripped over the raised, cracked, and uneven edge of the concrete sidewalk adjacent to the paved court. There was also a gap of approximately one inch between the two slabs.

The doctrine of primary assumption of risk provides that a voluntary participant in a sporting or recreational activity "consents to those commonly appreciated risks which...

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