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

Eugene J. Keogh, Respondent, v. New York Post Corporation, Appellant.
   Order, entered March 16, 1964, unanimously reversed, on the law, on the facts and in the exercise of discretion, with $30 costs and disbursements to the appellant, and the motion to dismiss for failure to prosecute granted, with $10 costs. Plaintiff has presented no creditable excuse for the delay of 14 months in serving a complaint. Moreover, the affidavits submitted by plaintiff fail to include an adequate affidavit of merits (cf. Sortino v. Fisher, 20 A D 2d 25, 31). Concur — Breitel, J. P., Valente, Stevens, Eager and Bastow, JJ.