Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, 2009

Fay v. Vargas

Fay v. Vargas
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York · Decided November 19, 2009
67 A.D.3d 568; 888 N.Y.S.2d 405
Fay v. Vargas

Opinion of the Court

Order, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Alexander W. Hunter, Jr., J.), entered June 23, *5692008, which granted defendant’s motion for summary judgment dismissing the complaint, unanimously affirmed, without costs.

The police accident report was inadmissible because it was made by an officer who did not witness the accident and it contains the hearsay, and presumably self-serving, statements of plaintiffs decedent as to the ultimate issue of fact (Holliday v Hudson Armored Car & Courier Serv., 301 AD2d 392, 396 [2003], lv dismissed in part and denied in part 100 NY2d 636 [2003]; Kajoshaj v Greenspan, 88 AD2d 538, 539 [1982]). The officer’s affidavit vouching for the truth of his report does not render admissible the hearsay statements contained in the report. Concur—Andrias, J.E, Sweeny, Nardelli, Catterson and DeGrasse, JJ.

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