Legal Opinion
Bobet v. Rockefeller Center, North, Inc.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Decided November 16, 2010PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Debra A. James, J.), entered March 23, 2009, which to the extent appealed from, as limited by the briefs, granted plaintiff’s motion to vacate a prior order granting defendants summary judgment dismissing the complaint on default, unanimously affirmed, without costs.
To obtain relief from a default judgment, a party is required to demonstrate both a reasonable excuse for the default and a meritorious claim or defense to the action (see CPLR 5015 [a] [1]; Facsimile Communications Indus., Inc. v NYU Hosp. Ctr., 28 AD3d 391 [2006]).
The court properly found…
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