Lee v. City of New York

In a negligence action to recover damages for personal injuries, defendant appeals *576from an order of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Scholnick, J.), dated July 18,1980, which granted plaintiff’s motion to direct defendant to accept service of plaintiff’s complaint, and denied defendant’s cross motion to dismiss the action for failure to timely serve the complaint. Order reversed, on the law, with $50 costs and disbursements, plaintiff’s motion to compel acceptance of the complaint is denied, and defendant’s cross motion to dismiss the action is granted. In light of plaintiff’s delay of 19…