Case ID: ad3d_11/html/0529-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Jacob Torkieh, Appellant, v New York Plastic Bag, Inc., et al., Respondents.
    [783 NYS2d 58]
   In an action, inter alia, to recover payment for the sale of goods, the plaintiff appeals from an order of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Jacobson, J.), dated January 13, 2004, which conditionally granted the defendants’ motion to vacate a judgment of the same court (Lewis, J.) entered October 2, 2002, against them upon their failure to oppose the plaintiffs cross motion for summary judgment.

Ordered that the order is reversed, on the facts and as a matter of discretion, with costs, the motion is denied, and the judgment is reinstated.

The defendants failed to establish a reasonable excuse for their default in opposing the plaintiff’s cross motion for summary judgment. Accordingly, the Supreme Court improvidently exercised its discretion in granting the defendants’ motion to vacate a judgment entered upon an order granting the cross motion (see CPLR 2005, 5015; Glibbery v Cosenza & Assoc., 4 AD3d 393, 394 [2004]; Grezinsky v Mount Hebron Cemetery, 305 AD2d 542 [2003]; Juarbe v City of New York, 303 AD2d 462 [2003]; Spells v A&P Supermarkets, 253 AD2d 422 [1998]; see also Roussodimou v Zafiriadis, 238 AD2d 568 [1997]; Matter of A., 192 AD2d 529 [1993]). Florio, J.P., Goldstein, Adams, Rivera and Spolzino, JJ., concur.