Watson v. Jamaica Hospital

In a wrongful death action, the appeals, as limited by appellants’ briefs, are from so much of an order of the Supreme Court, *696Queens County, dated February 11, 1976, as, upon granting the separate motions of appellant Jamaica Hospital and of appellants Marzulli and Smith to dismiss the complaint for want of prosecution pursuant to CPLR 3216, did so conditionally. Order reversed insofar as appealed from, on the law, without costs or disbursements, and motions granted unconditionally. No fact findings were presented for review. It appears that there was a lapse of some 17 months between the…