Turner v. City of New York

Upon the foregoing papers this motion by plaintiff for leave to serve an amended notice of intention to sue on the ground that in the notice heretofore served on December 26, 1944, the number of the trolley car was mistakenly stated as 5060 whereas the true number was 6050; sufficient appears in the moving papers to explain this mistake. In the court’s opinion subdivision 6 of section 50-e of the General Municipal Law (as added by L. 1945, ch. 694 ) authorizes an order to effect *1013the amendment sought; the statute is remedial “ to rectify the frequent and often gross injustices by which defects…