OCE Business Systems, Inc. v. J.I. Sopher & Co.

— Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Carol Arber, J.) entered March 24, 1992, in favor of plaintiff in the total sum of $79,962.56, unanimously affirmed, without costs.

Judgment was entered after denial of defendant’s motion to vacate an order granting, on defendant’s default, plaintiff’s motion to strike defendant’s pleadings. Defendant had previously defaulted on repeated requests for answers to interrogatories. Defendant made clear that its prior counsel had intentionally defaulted on the motion to strike because he believed that his client did not have a tenable position after…