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Gordon v. Honig

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, Second Department
May 22, 2007
40 A.D.3d 925 (N.Y. App. Div. 2007)

Opinion

No. 2005-10173.

May 22, 2007.

In an action to recover damages for personal injuries, the plaintiff appeals from an order of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Harkavy, J.), dated April 19, 2006, which granted the defendant's motion for summary judgment dismissing the complaint.

Law Office of Dino J. Domina, P.C. (Arnold E. DiJoseph, P.C., New York, N.Y. [Norman I. Lida] of counsel), for appellant.

Lester Schwab Katz Dwyer, LLP, New York, N.Y. (Paul M. Tarr and Steven B. Prystowsky of counsel), for respondent Baisley Lumber Corporation.

Before: Miller, J.P., Ritter, Covello and Balkin, JJ., concur.


Ordered that the order is reversed, on the law, with costs, and the defendant's motion for summary judgment dismissing the complaint is denied.

Based upon the evidence submitted by the defendant in Support of his motion for summary judgment, including the deposition testimony of both parties, which recounted conflicting versions of the circumstances leading up to the subject accident, questions of fact exist, inter alia, with regard to whether the defendant stopped at the stop sign regulating his direction of travel, and whether he failed to see that which he should have seen through the proper use of his senses ( see Vehicle and Traffic Law § 1142 [a]; § 1172 [a]; McDonald v Mauss, 38 AD3d 728; Berner v Koegel, 31 AD3d 591, 592).

As a result, the defendant failed to establish his prima facie entitlement to judgment as a matter of law, and the Supreme Court should have denied his motion ( see Alvarez v Prospect Hosp., 68 NY2d 320; McDonald v Mauss, supra).


Summaries of

Gordon v. Honig

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, Second Department
May 22, 2007
40 A.D.3d 925 (N.Y. App. Div. 2007)
Case details for

Gordon v. Honig

Case Details

Full title:MELISSA GORDON, Appellant, v. BENZION HONIG, Respondent

Court:Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, Second Department

Date published: May 22, 2007

Citations

40 A.D.3d 925 (N.Y. App. Div. 2007)
2007 N.Y. Slip Op. 4445
837 N.Y.S.2d 197
837 N.Y.S.2d 682

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