Order unanimously modified, and, as modified, affirmed, without costs, in accordance with the following memorandum: Striking pleadings for failure to comply with an order directing submission to an examination before trial is a severe penalty which should be imposed only when failure to comply has been willful or contumacious. Since it is impossible to determine whether defendant's possible failure to comply with the order will be willful, Special Term erred in striking the...
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