Anonymous v. Nowicki

In an action to recover damages for personal injuries, the defendant appeals (1), as limited by his brief, from so much of an order of the Supreme Court, Westchester County (Colabella, J.), entered July 31, 2012, as denied those branches of his motion which were denominated as seeking to strike the case from the trial calendar and stay proceedings in the action, but which were, in actuality, to vacate his defaults in opposing the plaintiffs’ two prior motions and his failure to appear at a scheduling conference, and (2) from a judgment of the same court dated December 31, 2012, which is in…