Case Name: Helen Pongini, as Administratrix of the Estate of Sabbatino De Croce, Deceased, Respondent, v. City of New York, Defendant, and Montefiore Hospital and Medical Center, Appellant
Court: New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1974-03-12
Citations: 44 A.D.2d 519
Docket Number: 
Parties: Helen Pongini, as Administratrix of the Estate of Sabbatino De Croce, Deceased, Respondent, v. City of New York, Defendant, and Montefiore Hospital and Medical Center, Appellant.
Judges: 
Reporter: Appellate Division Reports
Volume: 44
Pages: 519–520

Head Matter:
Helen Pongini, as Administratrix of the Estate of Sabbatino De Croce, Deceased, Respondent, v. City of New York, Defendant, and Montefiore Hospital and Medical Center, Appellant.

Opinion:
Order, Supreme Court, Bronx County, entered September 12, 1973, denying defendant's motion for an order of preclusion or in the alternative, to require plaintiff to serve a further bill of particulars, unanimously modified, on the law, the facts and in the exercise of discretion, and the motion granted to the extent of directing plaintiff to serve a further bill of particulars as to items numbered 3 and 6 of the demand within 10 days after completion of the defendant-appellant's examination before trial and, as so modified, the order is affirmed,' without costs and without disbursements. The responses to items numbered 3 and 6 of the demand are little more than a series of conclusory statements serving merely to repeat, the general allegations of the complaint and as such, are insufficient (see Barger v. Kaye, 16 A D 2d 751; Miller v. Rabinowitz, 5 A D 2d 822). How ever, since much of the information sought is not within the possession of the plaintiff and can be obtained through an examination before trial of the defendant-appellant, a final order of preclusion should not be granted until the examination is completed. Concur—Markewich, J. P., Kupferman, Tilzer and Moore, JJ.