Sandra Shutak v. Robert Handler

The issue is whether the IAS Court properly granted defendants summary judgment motion, dismissing the complaint on the ground that plaintiff failed to raise a triable issue of fact as to whether her act of climbing onto a chair and attempting to burst a plaster bubble on her apartment ceiling with a broom handle, resulting in her falling and sustaining injuries, was a normal, foreseeable consequence of the situation created by defendants negligence in failing to repair the ceiling after several complaints.