Costanza v. Skyline Towers 5

In an action to recover damages for personal injuries, the third-party defendant appeals from an order of the Supreme Court, Queens County (Price, J.), dated January 13, 2004, which, in effect, denied those branches of its motion which were to sever the third-party action and to vacate the note of issue and granted that branch of its motion which was, in the alternative, to compel discovery only to the extent of directing a deposition of the defendants third-party plaintiffs and a physical examination of the plaintiff.

Ordered that the order is modified, on the law and as a matter of…