CARDINALE v. WOOLWORTH'S, INC.


304 A.D.2d 351 (2003)

758 N.Y.S.2d 296

CHRIS CARDINALE, Appellant, v. WOOLWORTH'S, INC., Respondent. WOOLWORTH CORPORATION, Third-Party Plaintiff-Respondent, v. GERICO SYSTEMS, INC., Third-Party Defendant-Respondent.

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

Decided April 8, 2003.


This is a personal injury action seeking damages resulting from a trip and fall down stairs at a Woolworth's store in 1996 when plaintiff was working on an air conditioning system. On a September 2000 return date for motions to dismiss and for leave to serve a supplemental pleading, counsel for plaintiff failed to appear since his one-month-old daughter was undergoing an emergency medical procedure for a spinal tap and his partner...

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