Case Name: Karen E. Leone, Appellant, v. Greek Peak, Inc., et al., Respondents
Court: New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1981-04-03
Citations: 81 A.D.2d 751
Docket Number: 
Parties: Karen E. Leone, Appellant, v Greek Peak, Inc., et al., Respondents.
Judges: 
Reporter: Appellate Division Reports
Volume: 81
Pages: 751–751

Head Matter:
Karen E. Leone, Appellant, v Greek Peak, Inc., et al., Respondents.

Opinion:
— Order unanimously reversed, without costs, and motion granted. Memorandum: This is a negligence action in which plaintiff's attorney filed a note of issue containing a check mark designating "Trial without jury". Less than three months later, plaintiff moved for leave to serve and file a demand for trial by jury. Special Term denied the motion, and plaintiff appeals. Although plaintiff is deemed to have waived her right to a jury trial (CPLR 4102, subd [a]), she may be relieved of the waiver "if no undue prejudice to the rights of another party would result" (CPLR 4102, subd [e]). Plaintiff's attorney avers that he intended to demand a jury trial in the note of issue but his failure to do so was inadvertent and "due to oversight". He further alleges that he brought this motion immediately upon bqing advised by "court personnel" that the note of issue failed to contain a demand for a jury. In such circumstances, and in the absence of any claim of prejudice to the defendants, the motion should have been granted (Schwartz v Sunlight Apts., 274 App Div 901). (Appeal from order of Chautauqua Supreme Court — demand for jury trial.) Present — Dillon, P. J., Simons, Hancock, Jr., Doerr and Moule, JJ.