Johnson-Roberts v. Ira Judelson Bail Bonds
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
1Opinion of the Court
Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Cynthia S. Kern, J.), entered on or about May 1, 2015, which granted defendants’ motion to vacate the default judgment that had been entered against them, unanimously reversed, on the law, with costs, and the motion denied.
As we have held often, there exists a strong public policy in favor of disposing of cases on their merits (see e.g. Goncalves v Stuyvesant Dev. Assoc., 232 AD2d 275, 276 [1st Dept 1996]). However, this policy does not relieve a party moving to vacate a default from satisfying the two-pronged test of showing both (1) a reasonable excuse…
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