Opinion
No. 2014–259WC.
07-13-2015
Timothy A. GREEN, esq., Respondent, v. SCARSDALE FORD, INC., Appellant.
Opinion
Appeal from an order of the City Court of White Plains, Westchester County (Brian Hansbury, J.), entered October 21, 2013. The order denied defendant's motion to vacate a default judgment.
ORDERED that the order is affirmed, without costs.
In this small claims action to recover the principal sum of $1,702.42 for breach of a car leasing contract, defendant moved to vacate a default judgment in the principal sum of $1,438.42 that had been entered against it. Upon a review of the record, we find that the City Court did not improvidently exercise its discretion in denying defendant's motion, since defendant failed to demonstrate that it had a reasonable excuse for its default in appearance (see CPLR 5015[a][1] ; Eugene Di Lorenzo, Inc. v. A.C. Dutton Lbr. Co., 67 N.Y.2d 138, 141 [1986] ).
Accordingly, the order is affirmed.
TOLBERT, J.P., GARGUILO and CONNOLLY, JJ., concur.