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• Title: Steven Steiner
• Author : Supreme Court of New York
• Release Date : January 03, 1982
• Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
• Pages : * pages
• Size : 51 KB

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In a negligence action to recover damages for personal injuries, etc., plaintiffs appeal from two orders of the Supreme Court, Rockland County (Kelly, J.), both entered January 21, 1981, the first of which granted defendant East Ramapo Central School Districts motion to dismiss plaintiffs complaint for want of prosecution and the second of which denied, as moot, plaintiffs motion to amend their summons and complaint to add the third- and fourth-party defendants as direct defendants in their action. Orders affirmed, with one bill of $50 costs and disbursements payable by plaintiffs to defendant third-party plaintiff East Ramapo Central School District. Where a defendant has properly served a 90-day notice pursuant to CPLR 3216 and a plaintiff thereafter fails to file his note of issue and statement of readiness within the 90-day period following the demand, upon defendants motion to dismiss for want of prosecution, such sanction may be avoided only in the event that the party on whom the demand was served demonstrates (1) a justifiable excuse for the delay, and (2) a good and meritorious cause of action (CPLR 3216, subd [e]; Sortino v Fisher, 20 A.D.2d 25, 32; Keating v Smith, 20 A.D.2d 141; Levin v 40 Realty, 80 A.D.2d 515; cf. Barasch v Micucci, 49 N.Y.2d 594). The record reflects that plaintiffs neither provided an affidavit of merits nor demonstrated a reasonable excuse for their delay in failing to serve and file a note of issue within the 90-day period following the defendants demand. The excuse proffered amounts to "law office failure" and, as such, it is insufficient as a matter of law to defeat defendant third-party plaintiffs motion to dismiss for want of prosecution (see Scott v 99th Commercial St., 87 A.D.2d 626; Crucilla v Howe Richardson Scale Co., 80 A.D.2d 575; cf. Barasch v Micucci, supra, p 599). Gibbons, J.P., Gulotta, OConnor and Boyers, JJ., concur.

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