Gordon v. Boyd
Decision Date | 06 June 2012 |
Citation | 96 A.D.3d 719,2012 N.Y. Slip Op. 04320,945 N.Y.S.2d 741 |
Parties | Adrian GORDON, respondent, v. Lewitt Orlando BOYD, et al., appellants. |
Court | New York Supreme Court — Appellate Division |
96 A.D.3d 719
945 N.Y.S.2d 741
2012 N.Y. Slip Op. 04320
Adrian GORDON, respondent,
v.
Lewitt Orlando BOYD, et al., appellants.
Supreme Court, Appellate Division, Second Department, New York.
June 6, 2012.
[945 N.Y.S.2d 742]
Burke, Gordon & Conway, White Plains, N.Y. (Ashley E. Sproat of counsel), for appellants.
DANIEL D. ANGIOLILLO, J.P., RANDALL T. ENG, PLUMMER E. LOTT, and JEFFREY A. COHEN, JJ.
[96 A.D.3d 720]In an action to recover damages for personal injuries, the defendants appeal from an order of the Supreme Court, Westchester County (Giacomo, J.), entered September 21, 2011, which granted that branch of the plaintiff's motion which was for leave to renew his opposition to their motion pursuant to CPLR 3211(a)(1) and (5) to dismiss the complaint, which had been granted in an order of the same court entered March 29, 2011, and upon renewal, in effect, vacated the order entered March 29, 2011, and thereupon denied their motion pursuant to CPLR 3211(a)(1) and (5) to dismiss the complaint.
ORDERED that the order entered September 21, 2011, is affirmed, without costs or disbursements.
A motion for leave to renew pursuant to CPLR 2221(e) “may, in the Supreme Court's discretion, be based on facts known to the party seeking renewal at the time of the original motion,” but the movant must offer “a reasonable justification for the failure to present such facts on the original motion” ( Dervisevic v. Dervisevic, 89 A.D.3d 785, 786, 932 N.Y.S.2d 347 [internal quotation marks omitted] ). “Law office failure can be accepted as a reasonable excuse in the exercise of the court's sound discretion”
( Nwauwa v. Mamos, 53 A.D.3d 646, 649, 862 N.Y.S.2d 110). Under the circumstances of this case, the Supreme Court did not improvidently exercise its discretion in granting that branch of the plaintiff's motion which was for leave to renew his opposition to the defendants' motion to dismiss the complaint on the ground of law office failure ( id.).
Upon renewal, the Supreme Court properly, in effect, vacated its previous order and denied the defendants' motion to dismiss the complaint pursuant to CPLR 3211(a)(1) and (5). The document submitted by the defendants in support of their motion to dismiss was a release allegedly signed by the plaintiff. Upon renewal, in opposition to the motion, the plaintiff submitted evidence in support of his allegation that he did not personally sign the release and it was signed by someone without authority to act on...
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