Chevannes v. Lexington Garden Associates

In an action to recover damages for personal injuries, the defendant appeals from an order of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Rappaport, J.), entered December 12, 1997, which, in effect, denied its motion pursuant to CPLR 3126 to strike the complaint based on the plaintiffs failure to provide discovery, and upon, sua sponte, granting the defendant leave to conduct a further deposition of the plaintiff, precluded inquiry into the plaintiffs prior criminal convictions.

Ordered that the appeal from so much of the order as, sua sponte, limited the defendant’s inquiry of the plaintiff at the…