Messing v. City of New York

In an action to recover damages for personal injuries, the appeal is from an order granting the motion of defendant City of New York to dismiss the complaint for lack of prosecution, unless the case be placed on the calendar for the next available term. Order modified by striking from the ordering paragraph everything following the word “granted”. As thus modified, order *978affirmed, with $10 costs and disbursements to appellant. Respondents failed to explain or excuse the delay of more than forty-one months in bringing the case on for trial. On the facts disclosed by the record, appellant was…