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Contos v Zweig
2005 NY Slip Op 51841(U) [9 Misc 3d 139(A)]
Decided on November 16, 2005
Appellate Term, First 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This opinion is uncorrected and will not be published in the printed Official Reports.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 November 16, 2005
APPELLATE TERM OF THE SUPREME COURT, FIRST DEPARTMENT

PRESENT: November 16, 2005 Suarez, P.J., Davis, Schoenfeld, JJ.
NY County Clerk # 570250/05

05-165 Nicole Contos, Plaintiff-Appellant,

against

Morris Zweig, Defendant-Respondent.


Plaintiff appeals from an order of Civil Court, New


York County (Peter H. Moulton, J.) entered January 20,
2005, which, inter alia, granted defendant's motion to
vacate a default judgment.
PER CURIAM:
Order (Peter H. Moulton, J.), entered January 20, 2005,
affirmed, with $10 costs.

The motion court properly vacated defendant's short-
lived default upon a sufficient showing of a reasonable
excuse and meritorious defenses to the CPLR 3213 motion-
action (see Guilden v Baldwin Sec. Corp., 189 AD2d 716
[1993]; cf. Buchar v Sawyer-Ferguson-Walter Co., 247 AD2d
247 [1998]). [*2]

This constitutes the decision and order of the court.
Decision Date: November 16, 2005