Order, entered February 7, 1963, denying defendants' motion to dismiss for lack of prosecution, unanimously affirmed, with $20 costs and disbursements to the respondent.
It is true that an inordinate and inexcusable delay in service of a complaint in an action constitutes good ground for dismissal of the action for lack of prosecution. (See CPLR 3012, 3216; also, Marshall Field & Co. v. Stern & Herff Corp.,
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