Case Name: Katherina Houser, Respondent, v. Silver Set Realty Co., Inc., Appellant
Court: New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1963-05-27
Citations: 19 A.D.2d 554
Docket Number: 
Parties: Katherina Houser, Respondent, v. Silver Set Realty Co., Inc., Appellant.
Judges: 
Reporter: Appellate Division Reports
Volume: 19
Pages: 554–554

Head Matter:
Katherina Houser, Respondent, v. Silver Set Realty Co., Inc., Appellant.

Opinion:
In a negligence action to recover damages for personal injury, defendant appeals from so much of an order of the Supreme Court, Queens County, dated December 10, 1962, as conditioned the granting of its motion to dismiss the complaint for lack of prosecution (Civ. Prae, Act, § 181; Rules Civ. Prae., rule 156) upon the plaintiff's failure to serve and file a note of issue for a subsequent term of the court. Defendant contends that its motion to dismiss should have been granted unconditionally. Order, insofar as appealed from, reversed, without costs; the condition as to the filing of the note of issue is deleted; the defendant's motion is granted unconditionally; and the .complaint is dismissed. Plaintiff failed to justify the delay herein or to show that it was reasonable; nor did plaintiff attempt .to do so. Upon that state of the .record, it was an improvident exercise of discretion for the Special Term Justice to refuse to grant unconditionally the defendant's motion to dismiss the complaint for lack of prosecution (Gostanzo v. Schwedler, 14 A D 2d 814). Beldoek, P. J., Ughetta, Brennan, Hill and Hopkins, JJ., concur.