Case Name: Lyudmila Uvaydova, Appellant, v. New York Telephone Company et al., Defendants, and City of New York, Respondent
Court: New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1996-04-22
Citations: 226 A.D.2d 626
Docket Number: 
Parties: Lyudmila Uvaydova, Appellant, v New York Telephone Company et al., Defendants, and City of New York, Respondent.
Judges: 
Reporter: Appellate Division Reports
Volume: 226
Pages: 626–627

Head Matter:
Lyudmila Uvaydova, Appellant, v New York Telephone Company et al., Defendants, and City of New York, Respondent.
[641 NYS2d 565]

Opinion:
In a negligence action to recover damages for personal injuries and wrongful death, the plaintiff appeals, as limited by her brief, from so much of an order of the Supreme Court, Queens County (Price, J.), dated September 22, 1994, as denied her motion to compel the defendant City of New York to produce an additional witness for an examination before trial.
Ordered that the order is affirmed insofar as appealed from, with costs.
The court properly denied the plaintiffs motion to compel the City of New York to produce an additional witness for a deposition. "In order to show that additional depositions are necessary, the moving party must show (1) that the representatives already deposed had insufficient knowledge, or were otherwise inadequate, and (2) there is a substantial likelihood that the persons sought for depositions possess information which is material and necessary to the prosecution of the case" (Zollner v City of New York, 204 AD2d 626, 627). The plaintiff failed to establish either one of the foregoing elements. Rosenblatt, J. P., Sullivan, Copertino, Santucci and Goldstein, JJ., concur.