Rule 3116. Signing deposition; physical preparation; copies
(a) Signing.
Ashif v Won Ok Lee, 2008 NY Slip Op 09936 (App. Div., 2nd)
Contrary to the contention of the third-party defendants Mohmmd Chowdhury and Domenico Mancini (hereinafter the appellants), the unsigned deposition transcript of the third-party defendant Rehmat Khan, which Khan submitted in support of his motion for summary judgment, and which was relied upon by the defendant third-party plaintiff, Won Ok Lee, in opposition to the appellants' cross motion for summary judgment, was admissible under CPLR 3116(a), since that transcript was submitted by the party deponent himself and therefore was adopted as accurate by Khan, as the deponent (cf. McDonald v Mauss, 38 AD3d 727; Pina v Flik Intl. Corp., 25 AD3d 772, 773; Scotto v Marra, 23 AD3d 543). Similarly, the MV-104 accident report prepared by Khan was properly [*2]considered as a party admission (see Fox v Tedesco, 15 AD3d 538; Castellano v Citation Cab Corp., 35 AD2d 842).
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