Ordered that the order is affirmed, with costs.
Under the circumstances, the Supreme Court did not improvidently exercise its discretion when it, in effect, granted the defendant's motion for leave to amend his answer, as the proposed amendment was neither palpably insufficient nor patently devoid of merit, and there was no evidence that it would prejudice or surprise the plaintiffs (see CPLR 3025 [b]; Matter of Roberts v Borg,
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