Johnson v. Marriott Management Service Corp.

—Order, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Gerald Esposito, J.), entered March 2, 1999, denying plaintiffs motion pursuant to CPLR 3215 for entry of a default judgment against defendant Stuart McLeod, and for an inquest and assessment of damages, unanimously affirmed, with costs.

Although the Marriot defendants timely interposed an answer to plaintiffs complaint setting forth 12 affirmative defenses, they did not answer the complaint on behalf of their employee, individual defendant McLeod, for whom they are answerable in the action (see, Vehicle and Traffic Law § 388), because they were not aware…