Caton v. Doug Urban Construction Co.

— Order unanimously reversed, on the law, with costs, and motion granted. Memorandum: Special Term erred in denying defendant’s motion for summary judgment. This is an action for common-law indemnity by plaintiffs, who had previously paid a default judgment *1101taken against them in an action by a person who had fallen off the roof of plaintiffs’ house. As a result of plaintiffs’ failure to respond adequately to defendant’s interrogatories, plaintiffs were precluded from establishing the reasonableness of the amount of the default judgment, a necessary element of its cause of action (see, Depo v…