Medley v County of Westchester
2007 NY Slip Op 00614 [36 AD3d 868]
January 30, 2007
Appellate Division, Second Department
Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431.
As corrected through Wednesday, March 14, 2007


Shequela Medley, Appellant,
v
County of Westchester, Respondent.

[*1] Martino & Weiss, Mount Vernon, N.Y. (Louis J. Martino of counsel), for appellant.

Charlene M. Indelicato, County Attorney, White Plains, N.Y. (Stacey Dolgin-Kmetz and Thomas G. Gardiner of counsel), for respondent.

In an action to recover damages for personal injuries, the plaintiff appeals, as limited by her brief, from so much of an order of the Supreme Court, Westchester County (Nastasi, J.), entered February 3, 2006, as granted the defendant's motion for summary judgment dismissing the complaint.

Ordered that the order is reversed insofar as appealed from, on the law, with costs, and the motion for summary judgment dismissing the complaint is denied.

The plaintiff was injured when a small picket fence approximately three feet in height collapsed and fell on her at the Playland Amusement Park in Rye, New York, an amusement park owned by the County of Westchester. Although the County established, prima facie, that the fence in question had been properly maintained and was not defective, it failed to address the plaintiff's contention that one of the County's employees negligently caused the small fence to collapse by falling against it. As the County's submission left unresolved material issues of fact regarding the negligence of its employee, the Supreme Court should have denied the County's motion for summary judgment dismissing the complaint (see Ayotte v Gervasio, 81 NY2d 1062 [1993]).

The plaintiff's remaining contention is without merit. Miller, J.P., Spolzino, Fisher and Dillon, JJ., concur.