DECISION & ORDER
ORDERED that the order is affirmed insofar as appealed from, with costs.
The Supreme Court providently exercised its discretion in denying that branch of the plaintiff's motion which was for leave to amend the complaint, inter alia, to increase the ad damnum clause. Although leave to amend pleadings "shall be freely given" (CPLR 3025[b]), where, as here, a motion for leave to amend is made long after the case has been certified as ready...
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