Legal Opinion

Guity v. City of New York

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York

Decided March 23, 1993PublishedCited by 1 opinion

1Opinion of the Court

—Order, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Lewis R. Friedman, J.), entered February 3, 1992, which denied petitioners’ application for leave to serve a late notice of claim, unanimously affirmed without costs.

Denial of the application was a proper exercise of discretion in the absence of a showing that respondent acquired actual knowledge of the facts constituting the claim within 90 days after it arose, or a reasonable time thereafter given the absence of a valid excuse for the eight month delay in filing the notice of claim (see, Matter of Perez v New York City Hous. Auth., 156 AD2d 177). Concur…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. Perez v. New York City Housing AuthorityAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1989

3Cited by1 opinion

  1. Leiblein v. ClarkAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1994

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