Nicolosi Bldg. v Loehr
2004 NY Slip Op 02731 [6 AD3d 513]
April 12, 2004
Appellate Division, Second Department
Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431.
As corrected through Wednesday, June 30, 2004


Nicolosi Building, Inc., Respondent,
v
Gary G. Loehr et al., Appellants.

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In an action to recover damages for injury to real property, the defendants appeal from an order of the Supreme Court, Dutchess County (Dillon, J.), dated January 13, 2003, which denied their motion for summary judgment dismissing the complaint.

Ordered that the order is reversed, on the law, with costs, the motion is granted, and the complaint is dismissed.

The defendants made a prima facie showing of entitlement to judgment as a matter of law. In opposition to the motion, the plaintiff failed to raise a triable issue of fact. The plaintiff's observation of a pipe on its property running from the general direction of the defendants' property was insufficient to raise a triable issue of fact as to whether the defendants drained water from their property onto the plaintiff's property by artificial means. Accordingly, the Supreme Court should have granted the defendants' motion for summary judgment dismissing the complaint (see Alvarez v Prospect Hosp., 68 NY2d 320, 324-325 [1986]; Zuckerman v City of New York, 49 NY2d 557, 562-564 [1980]). Goldstein, J.P., H. Miller, Adams and Cozier, JJ., concur.