SPELLMAN v. NEW YORK CITY TRANSIT AUTH.


245 A.D.2d 197 (1997)

666 N.Y.S.2d 600

Jesse Spellman, Respondent, v. New York City Transit Authority et al., Appellants

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, First Department.

December 23, 1997


We find that it was an improvident exercise of discretion to impose the ultimate sanction, the striking of defendants' answer, in this negligence action of seemingly questionable liability in which plaintiff, while on the subway tracks of the elevated 170th Street station on the No. 4 line, was struck by a train, resulting in the severing of both of his legs above the knee. A test performed on plaintiff upon his arrival at the...

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