Dove v Manhattan Plaza Health Club |
2014 NY Slip Op 00195 [113 AD3d 455] |
January 14, 2014 |
Appellate Division, First Department |
Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431. |
Lilith Dove, Respondent, v Manhattan Plaza Health Club et al., Appellants. |
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Hogan & Cassell, LLP, Jericho (Michael D. Cassell of counsel), for respondent.
Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Barbara Jaffe, J.), entered April 17, 2013, which denied defendants' motion for summary judgment dismissing the complaint, unanimously reversed, on the law, without costs, and the motion granted. The Clerk is directed to enter judgment accordingly.
Defendants established entitlement to judgment as a matter of law in this action where plaintiff slipped and fell on water located on the tile floor around the indoor pool of defendants' health club. Defendants showed that the presence of such water was "necessarily incidental" to the use of the pool (Conroy v Saratoga Springs Auth., 259 App Div 365, 367 [3d Dept 1940], affd 284 NY 723 [1940]; Jackson v State of New York, 51 AD3d 1251 [3d Dept 2008]).
In opposition, plaintiff failed to raise a triable issue of fact. The mere presence of water does not raise such an issue and plaintiff has not asserted a violation of a code, rule, regulation or industry standard. Moreover, there is no evidence as to how long the water existed on the floor, nor was the amount of water above and beyond what one might ordinarily expect to encounter around a pool (see Jackson, 51 AD3d at 1253). That water on the floor was a recurring situation is simply consistent with being "necessarily incidental" to the use of the pool. Concur—Sweeny, J.P., Renwick, Andrias and Freedman, JJ.