In this action upon a judgment pursuant to CPLR 5014 (1), the motion court properly granted defendant's motion to vacate his default, but erred in then denying plaintiff's summary judgment motion. An assignee of a judgment is an "original party" to the judgment for the purpose of renewing a judgment lien (cf. Saxe v Peck, 139 App Div 419 [1910]) and plaintiff submitted sufficient evidence to establish that it was, in fact, the assignee of the original judgment entered...
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