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SARA LAKHAN, et al., appellants, v. DEODUTT SINGH, et al., respondents.

DECISION ORDER

ORDERED that the order is affirmed, with costs.

An owner is under no duty to pedestrians to remove snow and ice that naturally accumulates upon the sidewalk in front of his or her premises (see, Delgado v. City of New York, 245 A.D.2d 540;Stewart v. Yeshiva Nachlas Haleviym, 186 A.D.2d 731). A failure to remove all of the snow does not constitute negligence (see,Spicehandler v. City of New York, 303 N.Y. 946; Delgado v. City of New York, supra), and liability will not result unless it is shown that the landowner made the sidewalk more hazardous (see, Oley v. Village of Massapequa Park, 198 A.D.2d 272; Reidy v. EZE Equip. Co., 234 A.D.2d 593).

The plaintiffs failed to establish the existence of any triable issue of fact with respect to their claim that the defendants made the sidewalk more hazardous by removing the snow in front of their premises (see, CPLR 3212 N.Y.CPLR[b]). The copies of photographs submitted by the plaintiffs in opposition to the summary judgment motion were not accompanied by an affidavit of the plaintiff Sara Lakhan indicating that they fairly and accurately represented the condition of the sidewalk at the time of the incident, and thus, did not constitute proof in admissible form (see, Lewis v. General Elec. Co., 145 A.D.2d 728, 729).

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LAKHAN v. SINGH
(Feb 17, 2000)