Ordered that the order is affirmed insofar as appealed from, with costs.
Actions should be resolved on their merits whenever possible, and the drastic remedy of the striking of a pleading should not be employed without a "clear showing that the failure to comply with discovery demands is willful, contumacious, or in bad faith" (Espinal v City of New York,
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