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JOSEPH DeMASI et al., Respondents, v. RADBRO REALTY, Defendant, and MYSON PROPERTIES COMPANY et al., Appellants. (And a Third-Party Action.)

Ordered that the order is reversed, on the law, with costs, the motion is granted, and the complaint insofar as asserted against the appellants is dismissed.

The plaintiff Joseph DeMasi allegedly sustained injuries when he fell at his workplace at 8:45 A.M. on January 27, 1992. According to DeMasi's own deposition testimony, it had snowed "the night before into the 27th" and there were still "snow flurries" at the time of the accident.

On the question of liability for an accumulation of snow and ice, this Court has repeatedly held: "a property owner may not be held liable unless he or she has notice of the defect, or, in the exercise of due care, should have had notice, and the owner has had a reasonably sufficient time from the end of the storm to remedy the condition caused by the elements" (Arcuri v. Vitolo, 196 A.D.2d 519, 520; see, Wall v. Village of Mineola, 237 A.D.2d 511, 512).

The appellants, as movants, bore the initial burden of establishing their entitlement to judgment as a matter of law (see, Kyung Sook Park v. Caesar Chemists, 245 A.D.2d 425). The appellants satisfied that burden with evidence of the injured plaintiff's own observations. The plaintiffs, in opposition, submitted no evidence in admissible form to rebut the injured plaintiff's own testimony (see, Sagges v. Long Is. R. R., 259 A.D.2d 537; Whitt v. St. John's Episcopal Hosp., 258 A.D.2d 648). The plaintiffs failed to establish that there are issues of fact which preclude the granting of summary judgment to the appellants (see, Sagges v. Long Is. R. R., supra). Accordingly, summary judgment is granted, and the complaint insofar as asserted against the appellants is dismissed.

Bracken, J. P., Thompson, Goldstein and Florio, JJ., concur.

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DeMASI v. RADBRO REALTY
(May 3, 1999)