Opinion
October 12, 1993
Appeal from the Supreme Court, Westchester County (Wood, J.).
Ordered that the order is affirmed insofar as appealed from, with costs.
The defendants' extensive delay in responding to the plaintiffs' interrogatories permits an inference that the delay in this case was willful, evasive, and obstructive (see, Wolfson v. Nassau County Med. Ctr., 141 A.D.2d 815; Linwood Roofing Contr. Co. v. Olit Assocs., 123 A.D.2d 840). Under the circumstances presented in this case, we find that the court's decision to sanction the defendants by striking the answer constituted a sound exercise of its discretion. Mangano, P.J., Sullivan, Miller and Pizzuto, JJ., concur.