The court providently exercised its discretion in deeming the notice of claim timely served upon appellants (General Municipal Law § 50-e [5]). Although the stated ignorance of the law by infant plaintiff's mother is not a reasonable excuse for the failure to have served a timely notice of claim (see Harris v City of New York,
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