Awon v. Harran Transportation Co.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
1Opinion of the Court
*890The Supreme Court providently exercised its discretion in denying the motions of the defendants Harran Transportation Co., Inc., and Samuel S. Webb (hereinafter together the appellants) to strike the pleadings of Milan K. Awon in actions No. 1 and 2. A party that destroys essential evidence such that its opponent is “prejudicially bereft of appropriate means to [either present or] confront a claim with incisive evidence” is subject to severe sanctions (DiDomenico v C & S Aeromatik Supplies, 252 AD2d 41, 53 [1998] [internal quotation marks omitted]; see Horace Mann Ins. Co. v E.T. Appliances,…
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