Open-and-Obvious Staircase: NY Court Dismisses Slip-and-Fall Case
NY Slip Op 00042
Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Nancy M. Bannon, J.), entered January 6, 2016, which granted defendants’ motion for summary judgment dismissing the complaint, unanimously affirmed, without costs.
Defendants established entitlement to judgment as a matter of law, in this action for personal injuries arising out of plaintiff’s fall on an exterior stairway attached to defendants’ building. The stairway was open and obvious and not inherently dangerous (see Tagle v. Jakobson, 97 N.Y.2d 165, 169 [2001]; Russo v. YMCA of Greater N.Y., 144 A.D.3d 576 [1st Dept 2016]). There are no triable issues of fact (see Alvarez
