Opinion
June 27, 1988
Appeal from the Supreme Court, Nassau County (Widlitz, J.).
Ordered that the order is affirmed, with costs.
Pursuant to a court order, the plaintiff Frieda Bernstein appeared for an examination before trial on January 16, 1985, but neither the defendant nor his attorney was present and their default was noted. Thereafter, on May 7, 1985, Mrs. Bernstein again appeared to be deposed pursuant to another court order, and, again, the defendant did not appear and the defendant's counsel failed to examine her. The defendant now moves to dismiss because the plaintiffs have failed to appear again for examination. Under the circumstances of this case in which Mrs. Bernstein is a 75-year-old woman whose husband, the plaintiff Sidney Bernstein, is ill and confined to a nursing home, the Supreme Court did not abuse its discretion in finding that the defendant has waived his right to depose the plaintiffs (see, Jenkins v 312 W. 121st St., 30 A.D.2d 937). Thompson, J.P., Spatt, Sullivan and Harwood, JJ., concur.