FRIEL v. PAPA


36 A.D.3d 754 (2007)

829 N.Y.S.2d 569

CONNELL FRIEL et al., Respondents, v. CHARLES E. PAPA et al., Appellants.

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

Decided January 23, 2007.


Ordered that the order is reversed insofar as appealed from, on the law and in the exercise of discretion, with costs, and that branch of the cross motion which was to strike the answer is denied.

The Supreme Court erred in granting that branch of the plaintiffs' cross motion which was to strike the answer pursuant to the common-law doctrine of spoliation based upon the destruction of the hard drive of a computer used by the defendant Charles E. Papa. Where a party...

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