Rukeyser v. Richardson

In an action, inter alia, to recover fees for legal services rendered, the plaintiff appeals, as limited by his brief, from so much of an order of the Supreme Court, Westchester County (Murphy, J.), entered March 23, 2006, as granted that branch of the motion of the defendant Leacroft Richardson which was to vacate his default in answering..Ordered that the order is affirmed insofar as appealed from, with costs.

The Supreme Court has inherent discretionary power to vacate a default which is not subject to the one-year limitation in CPLR 5015 (see Ray Realty Fulton, Inc. v Lee, 7 AD3d 772, 773…