Opinion
March 14, 2000
Order, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Kenneth Thompson, Jr., J.), entered December 11, 1998, which denied defendant's motion for summary judgment dismissing the complaint, unanimously affirmed, without costs.
Morton Buckvar for plaintiffs-respondents.
Sharyn Rootenberg for defendant-appellant.
Nardelli, J.P., Williams, Tom, Lerner, Rubin, JJ.
The motion was properly denied since issues of fact exist as to whether the elevator door that swung open pinning the 12-year-old plaintiff's hand against a wall was defective, whether defendant created or had constructive knowledge of the allegedly defective door (see, Briones v. BSC Sec. Corp., 224 A.D.2d 200), and whether the unidentified elevator passenger's act of forcefully opening the elevator door and, in so doing, pinning the child's hand, was an intervening and superseding cause of the infant plaintiff's harm or simply a foreseeable consequence of defendant's alleged negligence (see, Derdiarian v. Felix Contr. Corp., 51 N.Y.2d 308, 315-316).
THIS CONSTITUTES THE DECISION AND ORDER OF SUPREME COURT, APPELLATE DIVISION, FIRST DEPARTMENT.