Chessey v City of New York |
2011 NY Slip Op 07584 [88 AD3d 625] |
October 27, 2011 |
Appellate Division, First Department |
Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431. |
Joseph J. Chessey, Jr., Appellant, v City of New York, Respondent. |
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Michael A. Cardozo, Corporation Counsel, New York (Ronald E. Sternberg of counsel), for respondent.
Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Carol E. Huff, J.), entered December 8, 2010, after a jury trial in an action for personal injuries, dismissing the complaint, unanimously reversed, on the law, without costs, the complaint reinstated, and the matter remanded for a new trial.
The City concedes that in light of the Court of Appeals' decision in Kabir v County of Monroe (16 NY3d 217 [2011]), it was error to charge the jury with the "emergency doctrine." It was undisputed that the driver of the City's vehicle involved in the accident was not "involved in an emergency operation" or "engage[d] in the specific conduct exempted from the rules of the road by Vehicle and Traffic Law § 1104 (b)" at the time of the accident (Kabir at 220). Accordingly, the driver's conduct "is governed by the principles of ordinary negligence" (id.). Concur—Andrias, J.P., Sweeny, Acosta, Freedman and Manzanet-Daniels, JJ.