Court Opinion

ID: 5783771
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-01-12 17:55:08.864058+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T08:42:02.900599
License: Public Domain

In an action by an assignee to recover upon a truck lease agreement and a guarantee, in which judgments in favor of plaintiff were entered, upon defendants’ default in answering the complaint, defendants appeal from an order of the Supreme Court, Nassau County, dated November 12, 1970, which denied their motion to vacate the judgments. (Although the motion referred only to the judgment against defendant McCabe, Special Term treated it as one to vacate both judgments.) Order reversed, with $10 costs and disbursements to respondent, motion granted to the extent that defendants’ defaults are opened but the judgments shall stand as security for plaintiff, and on condition that defendants shall give plaintiff an undertaking in the amount of $7,500, with corporate surety, in terms that, if the action terminates in a monetary award in favor of plaintiff, each defendant will pay to plaintiff the amount of such award against it (defendant) or the amount of any amended judgment against it (defendant) based upon such award. The undertaking shall be given and defendants’ answer to the complaint must be served within 10 days after service of a copy of the order to be made hereon, with notice of entry. In our opinion, the facts warrant the granting of defendants’ motion to open their defaults upon the conditions set forth above, since it appears that negotiations for an adjustment were going on during the period of default and that defendants have an arguable defense. Hopkins, Acting P. J., Latham, Shapiro, G-ulotta and Benjamin, JJ., concur.