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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Karl Winter, Jr., et al., Appellants-Respondents, v City of Geneva et al., Defendants, and County of Seneca et al., Respondents-Appellants.
    [611 NYS2d 82]
   —Order unanimously modified on the law and as modified affirmed without costs in accordance with the following Memorandum: Supreme Court abused its discretion in granting plaintiffs’ motion to file a late notice of claim. Plaintiffs failed to demonstrate a reasonable excuse for the failure to file timely a notice of claim. The fact that an attorney was not immediately consulted because plaintiff Karl Winter, Jr., assumed that the pain in his hands would go away is not a sufficient excuse (see, Matter of Martin v City of New York, 100 AD2d 879). (Appeals from Order of Supreme Court, Ontario County, Curran, J.— Late Notice of Claim.) Present — Denman, P. J., Balio, Fallon, Doerr and Davis, JJ.