Order reversed, without costs, and motion denied.
In our opinion, the Special Term improvidently exercised its discretion in vacating the prior order dismissing the complaint for plaintiffs' failure to prosecute. The excuse that plaintiffs' inactivity for 42 months after joinder of issue was due to inadvertence is insufficient to warrant vacatur of such prior order (Siegel v. City of New York,
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