CRUZ v. NEW YORK CITY HOUSING AUTHORITY


261 A.D.2d 296 (1999)

691 N.Y.S.2d 397

MARGARITA CRUZ, Respondent, v. NEW YORK CITY HOUSING AUTHORITY et al., Appellants.

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

Decided May 25, 1999.


Amendment of the notice of claim was properly allowed absent a showing of how defendants were prejudiced thereby (General Municipal Law § 50-e [6]). Concerning the cause of plaintiff's fall, although her notice of claim alleged only snow and ice, her testimony at the General Municipal Law § 50-h hearing, held less than two months after service of the notice of claim and less than five months after the accident, was adequate to give defendants timely notice of plaintiff...

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