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Madaia v. Petro

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, Second Department
Feb 19, 2002
291 A.D.2d 482 (N.Y. App. Div. 2002)

Opinion

2001-05453

Submitted January 30, 2002.

February 19, 2002.

In an action to recover damages for personal injuries, etc., the plaintiffs appeal, as limited by their brief, from so much of an order of the Supreme Court, Suffolk County (Oliver, J.), dated May 22, 2001, as, upon reargument, adhered to so much of its original determination as granted that branch of the motion of the defendant Dawn Donovan, a/k/a Dawn Egbert, which was for summary judgment dismissing the complaint insofar as asserted against her.

Phillip J. Jusino, Lake Grove, N.Y., for appellants.

Curtis, Vasile, Devine McElhenny, Merrick, N.Y. (Dominick A. Piccininni, Jr., of counsel), for respondent.

Before: MYRIAM J. ALTMAN, J.P., NANCY E. SMITH, GABRIEL M. KRAUSMAN, LEO F. McGINITY, BARRY A. COZIER, JJ.


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

The infant plaintiff, Gregory Michael Madaia, was bitten by a dog owned by the defendant Debra Petro in premises that she leased from the defendant Dawn Donovan a/k/a Dawn Egbert, an out-of-possession landlord. Where, as here, the plaintiffs seek to recover against a landlord under a theory of strict liability for a dog bite, they must prove that the landlord had notice that the dog was being harbored on the premises, and that the landlord knew or should have known that the dog had vicious propensities (see, Bemiss v. Acken, 273 A.D.2d 332; Lebron v. New York City Hous. Auth., 268 A.D.2d 563). After Donovan submitted evidentiary proof that she lacked any knowledge of the existence of the dog on the subject premises, the plaintiffs failed to raise a triable issue of fact.

ALTMAN, J.P., SMITH, KRAUSMAN, McGINITY and COZIER, JJ., concur.


Summaries of

Madaia v. Petro

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, Second Department
Feb 19, 2002
291 A.D.2d 482 (N.Y. App. Div. 2002)
Case details for

Madaia v. Petro

Case Details

Full title:RAYMOND MADAIA, ETC., ET AL., appellants, v. DEBRA PETRO, defendant, DAWN…

Court:Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, Second Department

Date published: Feb 19, 2002

Citations

291 A.D.2d 482 (N.Y. App. Div. 2002)
738 N.Y.S.2d 676

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