Barone v. Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company, Inc.
| Decision Date | 12 April 1999 |
| Court | New York Supreme Court — Appellate Division |
| Parties | LINDA BARONE et al., Appellants,<BR>v.<BR>GREAT ATLANTIC & PACIFIC TEA COMPANY, INC., Respondent. |
O'Brien, J. P., Ritter, Joy and Altman, JJ., concur.
Ordered that the order is affirmed, with costs.
It is well established that a corporation has the right in the first instance to determine which of its representatives will appear for an examination before trial (see, Mercado v Alexander, 227 AD2d 391; Defina v Brooklyn Union Gas Co., 217 AD2d 681, 682; Tower v Chemical Bank, 140 AD2d 514, 515). Here, the defendant produced two knowledgeable witnesses who testified with respect to the underlying incident. The plaintiff failed to show that those witnesses had insufficient knowledge or were otherwise inadequate, and that the proposed witnesses possessed information which was material and necessary to the prosecution of the case (see, Saxe v City of New York, 250 AD2d 751; Carter v New York City Bd. of Educ., 225 AD2d 512; Defina v Brooklyn Union Gas Co., supra). Accordingly, the court, upon reargument, properly denied the plaintiffs' motion to compel further depositions.
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