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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Alex Klein et al., Respondents, v. City of New York et al., Appellants.
   Order, entered on October 13, 1961, denying motion to dismiss for lack of prosecution, unanimously reversed, on the law and the facts and as a matter of discretion, with $20 costs and disbursements to appellants, and the motions granted, with $10 costs. The action was at issue for 27 months and no steps were taken to place it on the calendar. Plaintiffs attempt to excuse this inordinate delay by a claim that they were awaiting a decision in the Court of Appeals. The decision referred to was in an unrelated case. Such a contention, even though credited, provides no excuse. Concur — Breitel, J. P., McNally, Stevens, Eager and Steuer, JJ.