Opinion
June 10, 1996
Appeal from the Supreme Court, Queens County (O'Donoghue, J.).
Ordered that the order is reversed, on the law, with costs, and the defendant's motion to dismiss the action is granted.
The plaintiff neither demonstrated a reasonable excuse for his delay in serving the complaint nor submitted a proper affidavit of merits. Therefore, the defendant's motion to dismiss the action should have been granted (see, Redding v. Saunders, 213 A.D.2d 1015; see also, Scott v. George, 222 A.D.2d 1049; Rosano v County of Nassau, 208 A.D.2d 704). Mangano, P.J., Thompson, Florio and McGinity, JJ., concur.