Maloney v. Springfield Development Co.

• Decision Date: 10 December 1963
• Citation: Maloney v. Springfield Development Co., 20 A.D.2d 526, 245 N.Y.S.2d 209 (N.Y. App. Div. 1963)
• Parties: Floyd MALONEY, Plaintiff-Respondent, v. SPRINGFIELD DEVELOPMENT CO., Inc., Defendant-Appellant.
• Court: New York Supreme Court — Appellate Division

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245 N.Y.S.2d 209

20 A.D.2d 526

Floyd MALONEY, Plaintiff-Respondent, v. SPRINGFIELD DEVELOPMENT CO., Inc., Defendant-Appellant.

Supreme Court, Appellate division, First Department.

Dec. 10, 1963.

E. P. O'Brien, for plaintiff-respondent.

I. S. Worthman, New York City, for defendant-appellant.

Before BREITEL, J. P., and RABIN, VALENTE, STEVENS and BERGAN, JJ.

PER CURIAM.

Order, entered on June 28, 1963, denying defendant's motion to dismiss personal injury negligence action for failure to prosecute, unanimously reversed, on the law, the facts, and in the exercise of discretion, with $20 costs and disbursements to the appellant, and the motion granted, with $10 costs. The accident occurred March 12, 1960. Action was begun July 5, 1960 and issue was joined September 28, 1960. For a period of 31 months after the joinder of issue nothing was done to place the case on the calendar. Plaintiff seeks recovery of $75,000 for a fractured arm sustained in a fall on a private walk covered with unremoved ice and snow. The alleged excuse for the delay is that the attorney of record had another job. After 14 months had elapsed he referred the case to trial counsel and assumed that they had put the...