FILARAKOS v. ST. JOHN THE BAPTIST GREEK ORTHODOX CHURCH

8250. 160795/14.

169 A.D.3d 489 (2019)

92 N.Y.S.3d 624

2019 NY Slip Op 01130

Despina Filarakos, Respondent, v. St. John the Baptist Greek Orthodox Church et al., Appellants.

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

Decided February 14, 2019.


Plaintiff, who was volunteering at defendant church, was injured when, while decorating the church for Easter, she fell from the stepladder she was using. Defendants established that they did not supervise or control the means and methods by which plaintiff and her fellow volunteers decorated (see Stringer v Musacchia, 11 N.Y.3d 212, 217 [2008]; Lichtenthal v St. Mary's Church,...

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