Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, 1995

Riverhead Food Market, Inc. v. Taddeus Zalewski

Riverhead Food Market, Inc. v. Taddeus Zalewski
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York · Decided November 27, 1995
221 A.D.2d 617; 635 N.Y.S.2d 492; 1995 N.Y. App. Div. LEXIS 12457
Riverhead Food Market, Inc. v. Taddeus Zalewski

Opinion of the Court

—In an action to recover a down payment, the defendants appeal from an order of the Supreme Court, Nassau County (Kohn, J.), dated August 1, 1994, which denied their motion to vacate a default judgment dated May 25, 1994.

Ordered that the order is affirmed, with costs.

The Supreme Court found that the proffered excuse of law office failure was not a reasonable excuse for the defendants’ default. Under the circumstances of this case we discern no improvident exercise of discretion in the Supreme Court’s rejection of this excuse (see, Fennell v Mason, 204 AD2d 599; Putney v Pearlman, 203 AD2d 333).

The defendants’ remaining contentions are without merit. Sullivan, J. P., Thompson, Krausman and Florio, JJ., concur.

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