Legal Opinion
Staton v. Omwukeme
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Decided November 27, 2000PublishedCited by 3 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
—In an action to recover damages for personal injuries, the plaintiff appeals from an order of the Supreme Court, Queens County (Price, J.), dated October 6, 1999, which, after a hearing to determine the validity of service of process, granted the defendant’s motion to vacate a judgment of the same court, dated April 22, 1999, entered upon his default in answering, and dismissed the action.
Ordered that the order is affirmed, with costs.
The plaintiff claims that at a hearing to determine the validity of service, the Supreme Court improperly rejected the process server’s corrected affidavit in…
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