New York Water Service Corp. v. Palisades Interstate Park Commission

In our opinion, defendant is included, by definition, within the category of public corporations (General Corporation Law, § 2) and, therefore, is subject to examination before trial pursuant to section 292-a of the Civil Practice Act (cf. Ramapo Mountains Water, Power & Serv. Co. v. Commissioners of Palisades Interstate Park, 177 App. Div. 700; Kirkman v. Commissioners of Palisades Interstate Park, 200 *795App. Div. 870). Our decision in Conklin v. Palisades Interstate Park Comm. (282 App. Div. 728) is not to the contrary. There it was held that the County Court had no jurisdiction of a tort…