Von Diezelski v. Food Fair Stores, Inc.

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York

Von Diezelski v. Food Fair Stores, Inc.

18 A.D.2d 724, 236 N.Y.S.2d 603, 1962 N.Y. App. Div. LEXIS 6235

CourtAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York

DecidedDecember 26, 1962

StatusPublished

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Von Diezelski v. Food Fair Stores, Inc., 18 A.D.2d 724, 236 N.Y.S.2d 603, 1962 N.Y. App. Div. LEXIS 6235 (N.Y. Ct. App. 1962).

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In a negligence action to recover damages for personal injury, medical expenses and loss of services resulting from the female plaintiff’s fall in defendant’s store caused by an accumulation of ice and water on the floor near a watermelon display ease, plaintiffs appeal from an order of the Supreme Court, Queens County, dated May 21, 1962, which denied their motion (a) to vacate a dismissal of the action in December, 1957, pursuant to the provisions of subdivision (e) of rule II of the Queens County Supreme Court Rules, and of subdivision 2 of rule 302 of the Rules of Civil Practice; and (b) to restore the action to the Hon jury Trial Calendar of the court. Order affirmed, with $10 costs and disbursements. A ease marked “ off ” the calendar which is not restored within one year thereafter is deemed abandoned and is automatically dismissed for failure to prosecute (Queens County Supreme Court Rules, rule II, subd. [e]; Rules Civ. Prac., rule 302, subd. 2; Balaka v. Stork Restaurant, 3 A D 2d 857; Roe v. Kurkhill, 6 A D 2d 716; Colombik v. Heinrich, 11 A D 2d 1026). A dismissal under the above rules may be vacated and the ease may be restored upon a showing of facts sufficient to excuse the delay, as well as a showing of merits (Colombik v. Heinrich, supra; Klein v. Vernon Lbr. Corp., 269 App. Div. 71). In our opinion, the excuse offered in this ease for the delay, which extended over a period of five years, was insufficient to warrant the relief sought (Siegel v. City of New York, 16 A D 2d 679; Topp v. Casco Prods. Corp., 8 A D 2d 727; O’Rourke v. City of New York, 3 A D 2d 713). The contention that subdivision (e) of rule II of the Queens County Supreme Court Rules and rule 302 of the Rules of Civil Practice are unconstitutional, in that an automatic dismissal constitutes a denial of due process, was not raised in the court below; hence, it may not be raised for the first time on appeal (Romeo v. City of Yonkers, 126 App. Div. 402, affd. 196 N. Y. 546). In any event, since opportunity is afforded to vacate the dismissal and to restore the action to the calendar upon a showing of a sufficient excuse for the delay and upon a showing of merit (Colombik v. Heinrich, supra); and since a court always has the inherent power to control its own calendar, the dismissal may not be deemed to be a denial of due process. Beldoek, P. J., Kleinfeld, Brennan, Hill and Rabin, JJ., concur.

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In a negligence action to recover damages for personal injury, medical expenses and loss of services resulting from the female plaintiff’s fall in defendant’s store caused by an accumulation of ice and water on the floor near a watermelon display ease, plaintiffs appeal from an order of the Supreme Court, Queens County, dated May 21, 1962, which denied their motion (a) to vacate a dismissal of the action in December, 1957, pursuant to the provisions of subdivision (e) of rule II of the Queens County Supreme Court Rules, and of subdivision 2 of rule 302 of the Rules of Civil Practice; and (b) to restore the action to the Hon jury Trial Calendar of the court. Order affirmed, with $10 costs and disbursements. A ease marked “ off ” the calendar which is not restored within one year thereafter is deemed abandoned and is automatically dismissed for failure to prosecute (Queens County Supreme Court Rules, rule II, subd. [e]; Rules Civ. Prac., rule 302, subd. 2; Balaka v. Stork Restaurant, 3 A D 2d 857; Roe v. Kurkhill, 6 A D 2d 716; Colombik v. Heinrich, 11 A D 2d 1026). A dismissal under the above rules may be vacated and the ease may be restored upon a showing of facts sufficient to excuse the delay, as well as a showing of merits (Colombik v. Heinrich, supra; Klein v. Vernon Lbr. Corp., 269 App. Div. 71). In our opinion, the excuse offered in this ease for the delay, which extended over a period of five years, was insufficient to warrant the relief sought (Siegel v. City of New York, 16 A D 2d 679; Topp v. Casco Prods. Corp., 8 A D 2d 727; O’Rourke v. City of New York, 3 A D 2d 713). The contention that subdivision (e) of rule II of the Queens County Supreme Court Rules and rule 302 of the Rules of Civil Practice are unconstitutional, in that an automatic dismissal constitutes a denial of due process, was not raised in the court below; hence, it may not be raised for the first time on appeal (Romeo v. City of Yonkers, 126 App. Div. 402, affd. 196 N. Y. 546). In any event, since opportunity is afforded to vacate the dismissal and to restore the action to the calendar upon a showing of a sufficient excuse for the delay and upon a showing of merit (Colombik v. Heinrich, supra); and since a court always has the inherent power to control its own calendar, the dismissal may not be deemed to be a denial of due process. Beldoek, P. J., Kleinfeld, Brennan, Hill and Rabin, JJ., concur.

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