Brous v. Van Ostrand

On this motion to vacate a judgment taken on default, defendants obtained an order to show cause requiring service thereof on the attorney of record for plaintiff on the ground that plaintiff has left the jurisdiction. Service was made, as prescribed, and the attorney of record has filed an affidavit setting forth that he no longer represents plaintiff, does not know where plaintiff is, and has no recollection of this action.

The judgment was entered in 1952 hut was not discovered by defendants until this year when a title search of the premises was made. Defendants deny, in their moving…