Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, 1983

Verdon v. New York City Transit Authority

Verdon v. New York City Transit Authority
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York · Decided February 3, 1983
92 A.D.2d 465; 459 N.Y.S.2d 7; 1983 N.Y. App. Div. LEXIS 16661
Verdon v. New York City Transit Authority

Opinion of the Court

— Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Cerrito, J.), entered July 7, 1982, which granted petitioner’s application for *466disclosure of information necessary to frame a complaint and directed defendant to furnish, inter alla, reports of defendant’s employees, statements of witnesses and photographs, unanimously reversed, on the law and on the facts, and the application is dismissed, without costs. At approximately 10:30 a.m. on February 4, 1982 the petitioner was a passenger on a southbound “A” train. This train made an unscheduled stop at the Spring Street subway station in Manhattan. Then, as the petitioner was crossing between cars, the train abruptly restarted. This sudden movement caused petitioner to be thrown from the train and onto the tracks. Thereafter, petitioner suffered injuries, which resulted in the traumatic amputation of his right leg. The petitioner timely filed a notice of claim with the defendant New York City Transit Authority. Now he has made application for preaction disclosure, pursuant to CPLR 3102 (subd [c]). Our examination of this notice of claim leads us to conclude that “[sjince [petitioner] has demonstrated he possesses sufficient information to enable him to frame a complaint, the preaction disclosure he seeks is unavailable to him” (Matter of Ryan v Marsh & McLennan Int., 70 AD2d 567). Concur — Sandler, J. P., Sullivan, Ross, Fein and Kassal, JJ.

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