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PAUL MELKO, Respondent, v. TOWN OF ISLIP et al., Appellant.

Ordered, that the order is reversed, on the law, with one bill of costs, the defendants' motions are granted, and the complaint is dismissed.

The plaintiff was injured when, as he slid toward home plate during an amateur softball game, he came into abrupt contact with a depression in the surface of the field. In their motions for summary judgment, the defendants produced evidence that the plaintiff was aware of the alleged depression on the field, and that he had in fact complained about it before the game. Under these circumstances, it is clear that the risk presented to the players by this defect in the playing surface cannot be viewed as a concealed one, and that it must, therefore, be considered as one which was consciously assumed by the plaintiff (see, Hoffman v. City of New York, 172 A.D.2d 716 [decided herewith]; cf., Henig v. Hofstra Univ., 160 A.D.2d 761). Bracken, J.P., Kunzeman, Sullivan and Rosenblatt, JJ., concur.

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MELKO v. TOWN OF ISLIP
(Apr 22, 1991)