GARCIA v. LELAND GARDENS CONDO (2020)

Judgment (Lyle E. Frank, J.), entered on or about September 27, 2018, insofar as appealed from, affirmed, without costs.

The record establishes that the trial court applied the appropriate rules and principles of substantive law and accomplished "substantial justice" in dismissing plaintiff's claims for damage to her carpet resulting from a sewage leak in her condominium unit (see CCA 1804, 1807; Williams v. Roper, 269 AD2d 125 [2000], lv dismissed 95 NY2d 898 [2000]). The court was warranted in concluding that plaintiff offered no competent evidence at trial demonstrating the cause of the leak and thus failed to establish that defendant condominium created or had actual or constructive notice of any causative defect or condition (see Lau Tung Tsui v. New Charlie Tseng Corp., 35 AD3d 390, 391 [2006]; Murphy v. Bronx Park Phase I Preserv. LLC, 58 Misc 3d 130[A], 2017 NY Slip Op 51749[U] [App Term, 1st Dept 2017]). On this record, neither defendant's responsibility under the condominium bylaws to maintain the pipes, nor correspondence from defendant in 1989 and 2011 concerning blockages in the sewer line, was sufficient to establish defendant's liability for the personal property damage resulting from the June 2016 leak.

THIS CONSTITUTES THE DECISION AND ORDER OF THE COURT.

Per Curiam.

All concur.