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KARRAS v. COUNTY OF WESTCHESTER

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, Second Department.
May 8, 2000
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DECISION ORDER

ORDERED that the order is reversed, on the law, with costs, the motion is denied, and the complaint is reinstated.

The plaintiff allegedly slipped and fell on an accumulation of melted ice and snow as she attempted to enter the Westchester County Courthouse through a door adjacent to a revolving door. She commenced this action against the defendant asserting that her injuries resulted from the defendant's negligence, and the defendant moved for summary judgment dismissing the complaint. The defendant argued, inter alia, that it lacked actual or constructive notice of the alleged dangerous condition. In the order appealed from, the Supreme Court granted the motion. We reverse.

In support of its motion for summary judgment, the defendant failed to establish prima facie that it lacked actual or constructive notice of the alleged dangerous condition (see, Dwoskin v. Burger King Corp., 249 A.D.2d 358). Accordingly, its motion should have been denied regardless of the sufficiency of the plaintiff's opposing papers (see, Winegrad v. New York Univ. Med. Center, 64 N.Y.2d 851).

The defendant's remaining contentions are without merit.

RITTER, J.P., JOY, S. MILLER and H. MILLER, JJ., concur.