Legal Opinion
Goldberg v. County of Suffolk
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Decided May 13, 1996PublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
In a proceeding for leave to serve a late notice of claim pursuant to General Municipal Law § 50-e, the petitioners appeal from an order of the Supreme Court, Suffolk County (Oshrin, J.), dated January 31, 1995, which denied their application.
Ordered that the order is affirmed, with costs.
The Supreme Court did not improvidently exercise its discretion in denying the petitioners’ application for leave to serve a late notice of claim. The respondent did not acquire actual knowledge of the essential facts of the petitioners’ claim until approximately 81h months after the accident is alleged to…
2Cases cited5 opinions
- Caselli v. City of New YorkAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1984
- Morris v. County of SuffolkAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1982
- Perry v. City of New YorkAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1987
- Ribeiro v. Town of North HempsteadAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1994
- Vitali v. City of New YorkAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1994
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