Order as resettled affirmed, with $50 costs and disbursements.
Plaintiff's counsel was engaged in a criminal trial by order of the Administrative Judge of Bronx County on the date the inquest was held in the instant action. As such, the default was excusable and, as the plaintiff has set forth a meritorious defense to the counterclaim interposed, vacatur of the judgment of divorce in favor of the defendant and opening up of the default by Special Term was not an abuse...
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