FATUMATA B. v. PIONEER TRANSP. CORP.

12728, 350251/08.

118 A.D.3d 486 (2014)

988 N.Y.S.2d 31

2014 NY Slip Op 4145

FATUMATA B., as Mother and Natural Guardian of ANSUMANA B., an Infant, Appellant, v. PIONEER TRANSPORTATION CORP. et al., Defendants, and JORGE A. SOTO, Respondent.

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

Decided June 10, 2014.


Soto and other witnesses testified that the infant plaintiff ran into the path of Soto's car from between two parked school buses. Although Soto did not expressly plead the applicability of the emergency doctrine as an affirmative defense, he did plead, as parts of his affirmative defenses, that the accident was solely the result of the infant plaintiff's negligence in "walking into the path" of his vehicle "at a place other than a crosswalk." Accordingly, the motion court...

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