Case Name: Michael Odell, Appellant, v. 704 Broadway Condominium et al., Respondents
Court: New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 2003-01-21
Citations: 301 A.D.2d 438
Docket Number: 
Parties: Michael Odell, Appellant, v 704 Broadway Condominium et al., Respondents.
Judges: 
Reporter: Appellate Division Reports
Volume: 301
Pages: 438–438

Head Matter:
Michael Odell, Appellant, v 704 Broadway Condominium et al., Respondents.
[752 NYS2d 880]

Opinion:
—Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Louis York, J.), entered April 13, 2001, which granted defendants' motion for summary judgment dismissing the complaint for failure to join a necessary party, unanimously reversed, on the law, the facts and in the exercise of discretion, without costs, the motion denied and the complaint reinstated.
In view of the absence of prejudice to defendants resulting from plaintiff's joinder of the necessary party less than one month after the deadline set by the motion court for service of an amended complaint, dismissal of the complaint was an improvident exercise of discretion (see Cooper v Shepherd, 280 AD2d 337). Concur — Nardelli, J.P., Saxe, Sullivan, Rosenberger and Ellerin, JJ.