BATRA v. OFFICE FURNITURE SERVICE, INC.


275 A.D.2d 229 (2000)

711 N.Y.S.2d 428

RAVI BATRA et al., Plaintiffs, v. OFFICE FURNITURE SERVICE, INC., et al., Defendants. OFFICE FURNITURE SERVICE, INC., Third Third-Party Plaintiff-Respondent, v. KASPAR WIRE WORKS, INC., Third Third-Party Defendant-Appellant. STEELCASE, INC., Fourth Third-Party Plaintiff-Respondent, v. SWBC CORPORATION, Formerly Known as STEWART WARNER BASSICK CORPORATION, Fourth Third-Party Defendant, and KASPAR WIRE WORKS, INC., Fourth Third-Party Defendant-Appellant. (And Other Third-Party Actions.)

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

Decided August 10, 2000.


This action was commenced in 1994, after the injured plaintiff fell from an allegedly defective swivel chair. Five years later, Kaspar Wire Works, a Texas manufacturer of component parts, was impleaded into litigation already plagued by lengthy delays in discovery, answering a third third-party complaint (brought by defendant Office Furniture Service) on March 19, 1999, and a fourth (by defendant Steelcase) on June 10, 1999. On...

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