Cortez v. New York City Housing Authority

Order, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Anita Florio, J.), entered No *14vember 14, 1989, which, inter alia, granted plaintiff’s cross motion to sever the third-party action, unanimously affirmed, without costs or disbursements.

Plaintiff’s action against the Housing Authority, alleging negligence when he slipped and fell on an unlit stairway in February 1988, resulting in leg and ankle injuries, was commenced in April 1988. Plaintiff filed a note of issue and statement of readiness, which defendant never sought to strike, in January 1989. On the eve of the trial, in August 1989, defendant commenced…