Lifson v City of Syracuse

2010 NY Slip Op 03555 [72 AD3d 1523]

April 30, 2010

Appellate Division, Fourth Department

As corrected through Wednesday, June 9, 2010

Alexander Lifson, as Executor of Irene Lifson, Deceased,Appellant-Respondent, v City of Syracuse, Respondent-Appellant, and Derek J. Klink,Respondent. (Appeal No. 1.)

—[*1]Longstreet & Berry, LLP, Syracuse (Michael J. Longstreet of counsel), forplaintiff-appellant-respondent.

Rory A. McMahon, Corporation Counsel, Syracuse (James P. McGinty of counsel), fordefendant-respondent-appellant.

Costello, Cooney & Fearon, PLLC, Syracuse (Donald S. DiBenedetto of counsel), fordefendant-respondent.

Appeal and cross appeal from an order of the Supreme Court, Onondaga County (Brian F.DeJoseph, J.), entered November 26, 2008. The order denied the motions of plaintiff anddefendant City of Syracuse to set aside the verdict and for a new trial.

It is hereby ordered that said appeal and cross appeal are unanimously dismissed withoutcosts (see Smith v Catholic Med. Ctr. of Brooklyn & Queens, 155 AD2d 435 [1989];see also CPLR 5501 [a] [1], [2]). Present—Scudder, P.J., Peradotto, Lindley andSconiers, JJ.