Legal Opinion
Quinn v. Manhattan & Bronx Surface Transit Operating Authority
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Decided June 22, 2000PublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Order, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Stanley Green, J.), entered April 12, 1999, which denied petitioner’s application to file a late notice of claim, unanimously affirmed, without costs.
Petitioner claims that her late filing and service of her notice of claim was attributable to a clerical error by her counsel, which caused her notice of claim initially to be mistakenly filed with the City of New York, a non-party. The proffered excuse, law office failure, whether premised on an inadvertent clerical mishap or on an error in ascertaining the correct party to sue, was not, however, one that…
2Cases cited3 opinions
- Seif v. City of New YorkAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1995
- Bullard v. City of New YorkAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1986
- Burns v. New York City Transit AuthorityAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1995
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