Legal Opinion
Mercado v. Alexander
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Decided May 6, 1996PublishedCited by 9 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
In a negligence action to recover damages for personal injuries, the plaintiff appeals from an order of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Greenstein, J.), dated December 20, 1994, which denied his motion for leave to depose certain witnesses.
Ordered that the order is reversed, on the facts, with costs, and the motion is granted.
It is well settled that a corporation may designate which of its officers, directors, or employees shall represent it for the purposes of pretrial depositions (see, Zoliner v City of New York, 204 AD2d 626). However, depositions of additional witnesses may be ordered if…
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