| Bond v DeMasco |
| 2011 NY Slip Op 04615 [84 AD3d 1292] |
| May 31, 2011 |
| Appellate Division, Second Department |
| Anne F. Bond et al., Appellants, v Rita J. DeMasco et al.,Respondents. |
—[*1] James J. Toomey, New York, N.Y. (Evy L. Kazansky of counsel), for respondents.
In an action to recover damages for personal injuries, etc., the plaintiffs appeal from an orderof the Supreme Court, Richmond County (Fusco, J.), dated December 20, 2010, which denied, aspremature, their motion for summary judgment on the issue of liability.
Ordered that the order is affirmed, with costs.
Contrary to the plaintiffs' contention, the Supreme Court properly denied, as premature, theirmotion for summary judgment on the issue of liability (see CPLR 3212 [f]; Lambert vSklar, 61 AD3d 939, 940 [2009]; Aurora Loan Servs., LLC v LaMattina & Assoc.,Inc., 59 AD3d 578 [2009]). The plaintiffs moved for summary judgment on the issue ofliability prior to the parties' depositions. The defendants did not have an adequate opportunity toconduct discovery (see Amico v Melville Volunteer Fire Co., Inc., 39 AD3d 784, 785[2007]). Moreover, the plaintiff Anne F. Bond and the defendant Rita J. DeMasco submitted,among other things, affidavits containing certain discrepancies pertaining to the circumstances ofthe subject accident (see Gardner v Cason, Inc., 82 AD3d 930 [2011]; Cardone vPoidamani, 73 AD3d 828 [2010]). Mastro, J.P., Leventhal, Austin and Cohen, JJ., concur.