Garcia v Berns DeKajlo & Castro
2009 NY Slip Op 03953 [62 AD3d 542]
May 19, 2009
Appellate Division, First Department
Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431.
As corrected through Wednesday, July 1, 2009


Paul Garcia, Appellant,
v
Berns DeKajlo & Castro et al., Defendants, and DeKajlo Law Offices et al., Respondents.

—[*1] Schwartz & Ponterio, PLLC, New York (John Ponterio of counsel), for appellant.

Sweetbaum & Sweetbaum, Lake Success (Marshall D. Sweetbaum of counsel), for respondents.

Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Debra A. James, J.), entered April 18, 2008, which denied plaintiff's motion for a default judgment and inquest, unanimously affirmed, without costs.

Defendants demonstrated a reasonable excuse for their defaults. Concur—Tom, J.P., Friedman, Catterson, Moskowitz and Renwick, JJ.