Bonilla v Incorporated Vil. of Hempstead
2008 NY Slip Op 02776 [49 AD3d 788]
March 25, 2008
Appellate Division, Second Department
As corrected through Wednesday, May 14, 2008


Pio Bonilla, Respondent,
v
Incorporated Village ofHempstead, Appellant, et al., Defendants.

[*1]Garry & Garry, New York, N.Y. (William J. Garry of counsel), for appellant.

Lipsky, Bresky & Lowe, LLP, Garden City, N.Y. (Michael Lowe and John Marshall ofcounsel), for respondent.

In an action to recover damages for personal injuries, the defendant Incorporated Village ofHempstead appeals, as limited by its brief, from so much of an order of the Supreme Court,Nassau County (Spinola, J.), dated November 8, 2006, as denied its motion for summaryjudgment dismissing the complaint insofar as asserted against it.

Ordered that the order is affirmed insofar as appealed from, with costs.

The Supreme Court properly determined that the defendant Incorporated Village ofHempstead (hereinafter the defendant) failed to establish its prima facie entitlement to judgmentas a matter of law on the issues of whether it received prior written notice of the defect andwhether the defendant's contractor created the defect through excavation at or near the location ofthe accident (see Zuckerman v City of New York, 49 NY2d 557, 562 [1980]).Accordingly, the Supreme Court properly denied the defendant's motion for summary judgmentdismissing the complaint insofar as asserted against it. Fisher, J.P., Dillon, McCarthy and Belen,JJ., concur.


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