Legal Opinion
Caruso v. Valentin
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Decided September 30, 2008PublishedCited by 2 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
In an action to recover damages for personal injuries, the defendants appeal from an order of the Supreme Court, Suffolk County (Pitts, J.), dated October 22, 2007, which denied their motion pursuant to CPLR 5015 and 317 to vacate a judgment of the same court entered June 22, 2006, in favor of the plaintiff and against them in the principal sum of $135,415, upon their failure to appear or answer.
Ordered that the order is affirmed, with costs.
The Supreme Court did not improvidently exercise its discretion in denying that branch of the defendants’ motion which was to vacate the judgment entered…
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