Bazac v. Odelia Enterprises Corp.

—Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Edward Lehner, J.), entered August 13, 1999, which, in an action by building residential tenants against, among others, defendants-appellants commercial tenant and subtenant of the ground floor premises where a fire in the building allegedly started, insofar as appealed from, denied appellants’ cross motions to dismiss the complaint as against them as abandoned, unanimously affirmed, with costs.

Plaintiffs’ attorneys’ failure to track the progress of the action against appellants was a law office failure that reasonably accounts for their failure to move…