Yang v. Korea First Bank

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Lewis Friedman, J.), entered December 20, 1996, dismissing the complaint as against defendant-respondent, and bringing up for review a prior order which granted defendant-respondent’s motion for summary judgment dismissing the complaint as barred by res judicata, unanimously affirmed, without costs.

Defendant-respondent bank obtained a default judgment against plaintiffs in a Queens County Supreme Court foreclosure action. That court thereafter denied two motions by plaintiffs to vacate the default judgment and for leave to file an answer to the…