Sinchi v Aloia
2008 NY Slip Op 01814 [48 AD3d 373]
February 28, 2008
Appellate Division, First Department
Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431.
As corrected through Wednesday, April 16, 2008


Julio Silvio Sinchi, Appellant,
v
Mario Aloia et al., Defendants, and Jorge Pereira Construction, Inc., Respondent.

[*1] Quirk and Bakalor, P.C., New York City (Timothy J. Keane of counsel), for appellant.

Bolan Jahnsen Salter & Sachs, New York City (Gary C. Sachs of counsel), for respondent.

Order, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Lucy Billings, J.), entered on or about October 31, 2006, which, to the extent appealed from, granted the cross motion of defendant Jorge Pereira Construction, Inc. for summary judgment dismissing the complaint and all cross claims against it, unanimously affirmed, without costs.

Plaintiff sustained injury while working on the second story of a house being built for the Aloias. He fell into the basement through three-by-six-foot openings cut into the first and second floors to accommodate a chimney to be constructed by Pereira. Plaintiff's intimation that the protective planking that had covered the openings in the first and second floors might have been removed by one of Pereira's employees is unsupported by admissible evidence, and the complaint was properly dismissed as against said defendant (Zuckerman v City of New York, 49 NY2d 557, 562 [1980]). Concur—Tom, J.P., Nardelli, Williams and McGuire, JJ.