A failure timely to serve a complaint as a result of a disagreement between the opposing attorneys with respect to discovery is not law office failure. That being so and there being a sufficient indication of merit and no indication of prejudice to defendant in the motion papers, it was not an abuse of discretion as a matter of law for Special Term to condition dismissal of the action upon plaintiff's service...
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