Wren v. Lawrence Hospital

Full title: VIRGINIA WREN, Appellant, v. LAWRENCE HOSPITAL, Respondent

Court: Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, Second Department

Date published: Apr 25, 1994

203 A.D.2d 559 (N.Y. App. Div. 1994)

612 N.Y.S.2d 933

Opinion

April 25, 1994

Appeal from the Supreme Court, Westchester County (Ingrassia, J.).

Ordered that the order is affirmed, with costs.

Given the inordinate delays in this case (most of which were caused by the plaintiff's actions or inaction), and the fact that the plaintiff had two months advance warning as to when the trial would commence, it was not an improvident exercise of the court's discretion to refuse to grant the plaintiff a trial adjournment when both she and her expert witness failed to appear on the first day of trial. Rosenblatt, J.P., Miller, Krausman and Florio, JJ., concur.