Fiumefreddo v. Champion Trucks Rental, Inc.

—Order of the Supreme Court, New York County (Charles Ramos, J.), entered January 10, 1992 which, inter alia, denied plaintiff’s cross motion to restore this action to the trial calendar, reversed, on the law, and the motion granted, without costs.

Plaintiff sustained injury on April 12, 1979 when he was struck by a tractor-trailer driven by defendant John C. Luiken and caught between the truck and an automobile. This action was commenced in March 1980, and issue was joined in May of that year. Plaintiff placed the matter on the trial calendar on August 31, 1982. One year later, defendants…