Gallo v Otten, 2024 NY Slip Op 02454 [227 AD3d 1476]

May 3, 2024

Appellate Division, Fourth Department

[*1]

Anthony P. Gallo, III, Respondent,

v

Gerald D. Otten et al., Appellants, et al., Defendants.

Kenney Shelton Liptak Nowak LLP, Buffalo (Justin L. Hendricks of counsel), for defendants-appellants.

Smith, Murphy & Schoepperle, LLP, Buffalo (Dennis P. Mescall of counsel), for plaintiff-respondent.

Appeal from an order of the Supreme Court, Erie County (Donna M. Siwek, J.), entered December 14, 2022. The order, inter alia, granted plaintiff’s motion for summary judgment on the issue of the negligence of defendants Gerald D. Otten, Elbert Veldjesgraaf, and Admiral-Merchants Motor Freight, Inc., and seeking dismissal of those defendants’ affirmative defenses based on plaintiff’s alleged culpable conduct and assumption of the risk.

It is hereby ordered that the order so appealed from is unanimously affirmed without costs. Present—Lindley, J.P., Montour, Ogden, DelConte and Hannah, JJ..