Brice v. City of New York

In an action, inter alia, to recover damages for false arrest, unlawful imprisonment, assault, battery, malicious prosecution, and abuse of process, the plaintiff appeals, as limited by his brief, from so much of an order of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Baynes, J.), dated December 12, 2014, as denied that branch of his motion which was pursuant to CPLR 3215 (a) for leave to enter a default judgment against the defendants Steven Franzel and Police Officer Samboni, upon their failure to appear or answer the complaint, and granted that branch of the defendants’ cross motion which was to…