Opinion
October 18, 1956
Appeal from the City Court of the City of New York, County of New York, JAMES E. MULCAHY, J.
Leonard M. Henkin for appellants.
Melvel W. Snitow for respondent.
Plaintiff failed to set forth a satisfactory explanation for the long delay in the trial of the action or for his failure to move promptly to vacate the dismissal after his default. The Appellate Division maintains a firm attitude against unwarranted delay in prosecuting cases. ( A.R. Hyde Sons v. Roller Derby Skate Co., 1 A.D.2d 942.)
The retention of the check for the costs imposed as a condition for opening the default without depositing it for collection, is not a bar to this appeal under all the circumstances here.
The order opening the default was, in the face of the lack of due diligence without adequate reason therefor, improvidently made and should be reversed, and the plaintiff's motion denied.
The order should be reversed, with $10 costs and disbursements, and motion denied.
EDER, HECHT and TILZER, JJ., concur.
Order reversed, etc.