Willis v. City of New York

— Order, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Howard R. Silver, J.), entered on or about June 17, 1988, which denied a motion by the plaintiff for a severance and for leave to enter a default judgment against defendant Daniel Gaugheran, and which permitted defendants to serve an amended answer nunc pro tunc, unanimously affirmed, without costs.

The court properly denied the motion to enter a default *290judgment and permitted the defendants to serve an amended answer. (See, Mufalli v Ford Motor Co., 105 AD2d 642.) The sufficiency of a statement of merit is ordinarily to be left to the discretion of the…