Two Catherine Street Management Co. v. Yam Keung Yeung

In an action, inter alia, to recover damages for the breach of a commercial lease, the defendant Yam Cheung Yeung, sued herein as Yam Keung Yeung, appeals from an order of the Supreme Court, Dutchess County (Benson, J.), entered June 6, 1988, which denied his motion to vacate a judgment entered against him upon his default.

Ordered that the order is reversed, on the law and the facts, with costs, the motion is granted, and the default judgment is vacated.

We find that the motion to vacate the default judgment should have been granted. Regardless of the manner in which service was effected, the…