Case Name: Federation of Puerto Rican Organizations of Brownsville, Inc., et al., Respondents, v. Heriberto Mateo et al., Appellants
Court: New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1997-01-23
Citations: 235 A.D.2d 326
Docket Number: 
Parties: Federation of Puerto Rican Organizations of Brownsville, Inc., et al., Respondents, v Heriberto Mateo et al., Appellants.
Judges: 
Reporter: Appellate Division Reports
Volume: 235
Pages: 326–327

Head Matter:
Federation of Puerto Rican Organizations of Brownsville, Inc., et al., Respondents, v Heriberto Mateo et al., Appellants.
[652 NYS2d 954]

Opinion:
Appeal from order, Supreme Court, New York County (Ira Gammerman, J.), entered April 4, 1996, which denied defendants' motion to reargue, denominated a motion to vacate a default, unanimously dismissed as taken from a nonappealable order, without costs.
Although denominated a motion to vacate a default, defendants' motion was, in actuality, one to reargue the prior order that had conditionally struck their answer pursuant to CPLR 3126 (3), rendering the instant order nonappealable (see, Berman v Szpilzinger, 180 AD2d 612). In any event, if we were to review, we would find that defendants provided neither a reasonable excuse for their failure to comply with the conditional order nor an affidavit of merit by one with personal knowledge of the facts (see, Becerril v Skate Way Roller Rink, 184 AD2d 365, 366). Concur—Williams, J. P., Tom, Mazzarelli and Andrias, JJ.