Ordered that the order is affirmed, with costs.
The defendant has failed to establish any basis for vacatur of the oral stipulation entered into in open court. We have repeatedly held that relief from a stipulation of settlement will be granted only upon a showing of good cause, such as collusion, mistake, fraud, accident or a similar ground (see, Smith v Smith,
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