Van Inwegen v. Lucia

Appeal (transferred to this Court by order of the Appellate Division, Second Department) from an order of the Supreme Court (Hickman, J.), entered November 15, 1991 in Orange County, which denied defendants’ motions to, inter alia, dismiss the complaint for failure to obey a court order.

On March 27, 1991, Supreme Court issued a preliminary conference order which required plaintiff to serve bills of particulars on defendants by May 30, 1991. In July and August 1991, each defendant moved to dismiss the complaint *835due to plaintiffs failure to comply with this order or, in the alternative, to…