Bodi v. Orciuoli

Appeal from an order of the Supreme Court (Travers, J.), entered May 8, 1992 in Rensselaer County, which denied defendants’ motion to vacate a default judgment entered against them.

The gravamen of this action commenced on May 25, 1989 is an encroachment by defendants upon plaintiffs’ land. Following the service of process, conversations ensued between the parties and thereafter between defendants and counsel for plaintiffs concerning a possible purchase by defendants of the land in question. Defendants failed to respond to an offer made in a May 16, 1990 letter to them from plaintiffs’…