FRASER v. RECLAIM HOUS. DEV. FUND CORP.

Index No. 25439/2017E. Appeal No. 11887. Case No. 2020-01443.

186 A.D.3d 1152 (2020)

132 N.Y.S.3d 7

2020 NY Slip Op 05135

Eugene Fraser, Respondent, v. Reclaim Housing Development Fund Corporation et al., Appellants.

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

Decided September 29, 2020.


The record demonstrates that defendants may not be held liable for the injuries sustained by plaintiff when, upon tripping over speaker wires, he fell out of his bedroom window and onto the sidewalk below. Defendants met their burden for summary judgment by submitting evidence that the window, neither by its configuration or condition, presented a hazard in and of itself, and that defendants had no statutory or common-law duty to install window guards or stops for the benefit...

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