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

Anthony J. Harris, Respondent, v Fenton Morrison et al., Appellants, et al., Defendants.
    [851 NYS2d 871]
   Plaintiff showed “sufficient cause . . . why the complaint should not be dismissed” (CPLR 3215 [c]). Acceptance of the excuse offered for the relatively short delay was, under the circumstances, a proper exercise of judicial discretion (see Pappoe v Custodio, 156 AD2d 211 [1989]). Concur-Nardelli, J.P., Williams, Sweeny and Catterson, JJ.