Mercado v City of New York (2005 NY Slip Op 04385)

Mercado v City of New York

2005 NY Slip Op 04385 [18 AD3d 832]

May 31, 2005

Appellate Division, Second Department

Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431.

As corrected through Wednesday, July 20, 2005

Maritza Mercado et al., Appellants,
v
City of New York, Respondent.

—[*1]In an action to recover damages for personal injuries, etc., the plaintiffs appeal from an order of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Partnow, J.), dated March 26, 2004, which, in effect, denied their motion to strike the defendant's answer.

Ordered that the order is affirmed, with costs.

Under the circumstances of this case, the extreme sanction of striking the defendant's answer was not warranted (see Byrne v City of New York, 301 AD2d 489, 490 [2003]; Vancott v Great Atl. & Pac. Tea Co., 271 AD2d 438 [2000]; Brown v United Christian Evangelistic Assn., 270 AD2d 378, 379 [2000]; Town of Southampton v Salten, 186 AD2d 796 [1992]; cf. Bates v Baez, 299 AD2d 382 [2002]; Patterson v Greater N.Y. Corp. of Seventh Day Adventists, 284 AD2d 382 [2001]; Harris v City of New York, 211 AD2d 663, 664 [1995]). Adams, J.P., Cozier, Ritter and Skelos, JJ., concur.