Steen v. New Deal Delivery Service, Inc.
| Decision Date | 17 September 1981 |
| Citation | 54 N.Y.2d 796,443 N.Y.S.2d 611 |
| Parties | , 427 N.E.2d 770 William E. STEEN, Appellant, v. NEW DEAL DELIVERY SERVICE, INC., Defendant, 498 Seventh Avenue Associates, a partnership, et al., Respondents. |
| Court | New York Court of Appeals Court of Appeals |
On summary consideration, order affirmed, with costs. It cannot be said, as a matter of law, that the Appellate Division, 79 A.D.2d 963, 435 N.Y.S.2d 278, abused its discretion in dismissing the complaint pursuant to CPLR 3012 (subd. As we held in Barasch v. Micucci, 49 N.Y.2d 594, 600-601, 427 N.Y.S.2d 732, 404 N.E.2d 1275, it would have constituted an abuse of discretion to have failed to dismiss.
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