Legal Opinion
Kasriels v. Barnard College of Columbia University
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Decided December 17, 1998PublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtYesawich Jr., J.
Appeal from an order of the Supreme Court (Viscardi, J.), entered October 21, 1997 in Essex County, which *910granted defendant’s motion to vacate a default judgment entered against it.
Plaintiffs commenced this action on January 24, 1997 seeking money damages for the loss of a motor vehicle that was destroyed by fire while parked in front of a building owned by defendant. It was plaintiffs’ contention that defendant’s employees had negligently piled garbage against and on top of plaintiffs’ car and that the vehicle was destroyed when the garbage was set on fire by vandals. After receipt of…
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