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New York City Hous. Auth. v Walker
2005 NY Slip Op 50270(U)
Decided on March 3, 2005
Appellate Term, Second Department
Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431.
This opinion is uncorrected and will not be published in the printed Official Reports.


Decided on March 3, 2005
SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK

APPELLATE TERM: 2nd and 11th JUDICIAL DISTRICTS

PRESENT: PESCE, P.J., PATTERSON and RIOS, JJ.
2004-591 Q C

NEW YORK CITY HOUSING AUTHORITY, Respondent,

against

MICHAEL WALKER, Appellant.


Appeal by tenant from so much of an order of the Civil Court, Queens County (P. Jackman- Brown, J.), entered March 8, 2004, as denied tenant's motion to vacate a default final judgment and restore the matter to the calendar.


Order unanimously affirmed without costs.

In this nonpayment summary proceeding, tenant moved to vacate a final judgment entered on default on April 24, 2000. Inasmuch as the moving papers failed to set forth sufficient facts to establish a meritorious defense to the action and an excusable default, tenant was not entitled to a vacatur of the final judgment. We further note that the court's refusal to stay execution of the warrant of eviction due to tenant's filing for bankruptcy was proper under the circumstances and consistent with recent case law (see Dulac v Dabrowski, 4 AD3d 308 [2004]). [*2]
Decision Date: March 03, 2005