Aloise v Saulo
2008 NY Slip Op 04630 [51 AD3d 831]
May 20, 2008
Appellate Division, Second Department
Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431.
As corrected through Wednesday, July 16, 2008


Emilio Aloise, Appellant,
v
Alfred Saulo, Respondent, et al., Defendant.

[*1] Everett J. Petersson, P.C., Brooklyn, N.Y., for appellant.

Bee Ready Fishbein Hatter & Donovan, LLP, Mineola, N.Y. (Robert Conti of counsel), for respondent.

In an action to recover damages for personal injuries, the plaintiff appeals from so much of an order of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Bayne, J.), entered November 16, 2007, as granted the motion of the defendant Alfred Saulo to compel him to produce a certain nail gun at his videotaped deposition.

Ordered that the order is affirmed insofar as appealed from, with costs.

The Supreme Court providently exercised its discretion in requiring the plaintiff to produce, at a further deposition, the nail gun that allegedly caused his injuries (see CPLR 3111), as the record demonstrates that the issue of how the nail gun was used during the accident is "material and necessary" to the defense of the action (CPLR 3101 [a]; Allen v Crowell-Collier Publ. Co., 21 NY2d 403, 406 [1968]). The Supreme Court also properly permitted the deposition to be videotaped upon service of the notice required by the Uniform Rules for the New York State Trial Courts (see 22 NYCRR 202.15 [c]), which the plaintiff conceded, at the oral argument of the motion, was properly effected. Spolzino, J.P., Lifson, Florio and Dickerson, JJ., concur.