HANN FINANCIAL VS. VIVIAN OJOMO(DC-011772-14, ESSEX COUNTY AND STATEWIDE) ( 2017 )

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SUPERIOR COURT OF NEW JERSEY
APPELLATE DIVISION
DOCKET NO. A-2136-14T4
HANN FINANCIAL,
Plaintiff-Respondent,
v.
VIVIAN OJOMO,
Defendant-Appellant.
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Submitted May 9, 2017 – Decided May 19, 2017
Before Judges Fisher and Ostrer.
On appeal from the Superior Court of New
Jersey, Law Division, Special Civil Part,
Essex County, Docket No. DC-011772-14.
Vivian Ojomo, appellant pro se.
Respondent has not filed a brief.
PER CURIAM
According to her notice of appeal, defendant Vivian Ojomo
appeals a trial court order entered on November 25, 2014. That
order denied defendant's motion for reconsideration. In the
comments contained in that order, the judge referred to an order
he entered on November 14, 2014, that denied an earlier motion for
reconsideration; the judge stated in his November 25 order that
defendant "has still failed to satisfy" the requirements of Rule
4:49-2. In the November 14, 2014 order, which has not been
appealed, the judge referred to the requirements of Rule 4:49-2,
which he stated required that such a motion "be served no later
than 20 days" after service of the order in question, and that the
motion "state with specificity the basis on which it is made,
including a statement of [the] matters or controlling decisions
which the movant believes the court has overlooked or as to which
it has erred, and shall have annexed thereto a copy of the judgment
or order sought to be reconsidered."
As best we can determine, this lawsuit would appear to be an
action commenced by plaintiff for damages done to a vehicle leased
by defendant from plaintiff. We know little more. The appendix
filed by defendant includes only: a document that would appear to
be a receipt given to defendant upon return of the vehicle; a one-
page notice of motion apparently filed in the trial court by
defendant for relief from a default judgment that offers no
information as for the grounds presented by defendant in seeking
that relief; one page of what purports to be partial handwritten
answers to interrogatories; the November 25, 2014 order; and a
two-page, unsigned document, which is labeled "supporting brief
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of request for stay and appeal the civil court decision made
without hearing case."1
In short, we have nothing before us that would permit an
informed review of the sole issue presented in this appeal, which,
in defendant's words, seeks reversal of "the November 25th order
of the civil court decision and [a] remand [of] this case to the
law division as appellant was not properly served and the trial
court abused its discretion by not hearing oral arguments on this
case."
Defendant's appendix is not in compliance with Rule 2:6-
1(a)(1); to name a few omitted items, defendant has failed to
provide us with: plaintiff's complaint; the judgment; any orders
that preceded the two orders referred to above; and all relevant
motion papers and opposition.2 Even allowing for the fact that
defendant is self-represented, we have no choice but to dismiss
the appeal because we have not been provided with the information
necessary to permit even a rudimentary understanding of the case
and the issue raised. See Noren v. Heartland Payment Sys., 448
N.J. Super. 486, 500 (App. Div. 2017).
1
That motion was denied.
2
Obviously, this list is not all-inclusive. We have not been given
enough information from which we might ascertain what else we
would need to properly review the order from which defendant
appeals.
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Appeal dismissed.
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