Board of Managers of the Landmark Condominium v. 117 Tulip Avenue Associates

In an action to recover damages, inter alia, for the negligence of the respondent Licon Associates, Inc. in the construction and/or design of the plaintiffs condominium building, the plaintiff appeals (1) from an order of the Supreme Court, Nassau County (Lally, J.), dated August 23, 1996, which sua sponte dismissed the complaint based upon the plaintiffs failure to comply with a prior directive of the court to appear for a discovery conference, and (2), as limited by its brief, from so much of an order of the same court entered January 30, 1997, as, upon, in effect, granting reargument,…