Hill v. Smalls

Order entered in the Supreme Court, New York County, on February 5, 1975, affirmed, without costs or disbursements. We find no abuse of discretion in Special Term’s denial of appellant’s motion to remove and consolidate two personal injury negligence actions pending in the Civil Court and for an increase in the ad damnum to $1,000,000. The actions arise out of unrelated accidents occurring in 1966 and 1967, the first action having been commenced in the Civil Court and the latter one year later in the Supreme Court. On May 30, 1974 the latter action was remanded to the Civil Court pursuant to…