Opinion
April 20, 1998
Appeal from the Supreme Court, Queens County (Dye, J.)
Ordered that the order is affirmed, with costs.
The Supreme Court properly found the existence of a triable issue of fact sufficient to deny summary judgment ( see, Ferrante v. American Lung Assn., 90 N.Y.2d 623; see also, Castignoli v. Van Guard, 242 A.D.2d 357 [as to the plaintiff's argument concerning vouching in]). The question of whether the plaintiff should be given leave to amend the complaint, raised for the first time in the plaintiff's reply papers, is not properly before us ( see, Galatti v. Alliance Funding Co., 228 A.D.2d 550; Katz v. Katz, 68 A.D.2d 536).
Pizzuto, J.P., Joy, Friedmann and Florio, JJ., concur.