Maasch v. Edward Corning Co.

Order of the Supreme Court, Suffolk County, dated June 14, 1967, which granted plaintiff’s motion to increase an ad damnum allegation in his complaint from $200,000 to $750,000 and to amend his bill of particulars with respect to the specifications of negligence, injuries, and special damages, reversed, with $20 costs and disbursements to appellants Ketchum & Sharp, and motion denied, without prejudice to a renewal of the motion as hereinafter indicated, if plaintiff be so advised. The motion, made upon the eve of trial, should not have been granted solely upon the affidavit of plaintiff’s…