By Duffy, J.P.; Connolly, Zayas, Wan, JJ.
YOLANDA LOIS VALESQUEZ, ETC., app, v. FRANCESCA LANDINO, res — (Index No. 7572/15) Harmon, Linder & Rogowsky (Mitchell Dranow, Sea Cliff, NY, of counsel), for appellant. Wilson Elser Moskowitz Edelman & Dicker, LLP, White Plains, NY (Patrick J. Lawless and Danielle S. Tauber of counsel), for respondent. In an action to recover damages for personal injuries, the plaintiff appeals from an order of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Carolyn E. Wade, J.), dated January 13, 2020. The order, insofar as appealed from, denied that branch of the plaintiff’s motion which was pursuant to CPLR 5015(a)(1) to vacate an order of the same court dated March 26, 2019, granting the defendant’s unopposed motion for summary judgment dismissing the complaint. ORDERED that the order dated January 13, 2020, is reversed insofar as appealed from, on the facts and in the exercise of discretion, with costs, that branch of the plaintiff’s motion which was pursuant to CPLR 5015(a)(1) to vacate the order dated March 26, 2019, is granted, and the matter is remitted to the Supreme Court, Kings County, for further proceedings consistent herewith. In June 2015, Luis Figueroa (hereinafter the decedent) commenced this action to recover damages for personal injuries he alleged he sustained in February 2015 when he slipped and fell on the sidewalk outside an apartment building owned by the defendant. Following the decedent’s death, his wife (hereinafter the plaintiff), as administrator of his estate, was substituted as the plaintiff pursuant to an order dated August 12, 2016. After the completion of discovery, the defendant moved for summary judgment dismissing the complaint. The Supreme Court directed that the plaintiff submit her opposition no later than February 25, 2019, and set a return date of March 8, 2019. The plaintiff missed the February 25, 2019 deadline and attempted to serve the opposition papers on March 7, 2019. During the court appearance on March 8, 2019, the plaintiff requested an adjournment of time to submit her opposition to the defendant’s motion. Counsel for the plaintiff advised the court that someone in her law firm had mistakenly entered, on the law firm’s calendaring system, the return date of March 8, 2019, as the date when the opposition was due. The court denied the request. Thereafter, in an order dated March 26, 2019 (hereinafter the March 2019 order), the court granted, as unopposed, the defendant’s motion for summary judgment dismissing the complaint. The plaintiff moved, among other things, pursuant to CPLR 5015(a)(1) to vacate the March 2019 order. In an order dated January 13, 2020 (hereinafter the January 2020 order), the court, inter alia, denied the motion. The plaintiff appeals.
