Pelaez v Seide
2008 NY Slip Op 02125 [49 AD3d 618]
March 11, 2008
Appellate Division, Second Department
Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431.
As corrected through Wednesday, May 14, 2008


Maria Nancy Pelaez et al., Respondents,
v
Laura Seide et al., Appellants, et al., Defendants.

[*1] Wilson, Elser, Moskowitz, Edelman & Dicker LLP, New York, N.Y. (Richard E. Lerner and Lucinda H. Alfieri of counsel), for appellants.

Nancy Fairchild Sachs, P.C., New York, N.Y., for respondents.

In an action, inter alia, to recover damages for personal injuries, the defendants Laura Seide and Gary Seide appeal, as limited by their brief, from so much of an order of the Supreme Court, Putnam County (O'Rourke, J.), dated January 23, 2007, as denied that branch of their motion which was for summary judgment dismissing the complaint insofar as asserted against them.

Ordered that the order is affirmed insofar as appealed from, with costs.

The Supreme Court properly denied that branch of the appellants' motion which was for summary judgment dismissing the complaint insofar as asserted against them because they failed to tender evidence sufficient to entitle them to judgment as a matter of law (see Alvarez v Prospect Hosp., 68 NY2d 320, 324 [1986]). Questions of fact exist as to whether the appellants owned or controlled the subject property during the time when the infant plaintiffs sustained their injuries (see Ellers v Horwitz Family Ltd. Partnership, 36 AD3d 849 [2007]). Mastro, J.P., Covello, Eng and Belen, JJ., concur.