Aurora Loan Serv. Llc v. Lopa
| Decision Date | 25 October 2011 |
| Citation | 932 N.Y.S.2d 496,2011 N.Y. Slip Op. 07595,88 A.D.3d 929 |
| Parties | AURORA LOAN SERVICES, LLC, appellant,v.Paul LOPA, respondent, et al., defendants. |
| Court | New York Supreme Court — Appellate Division |
88 A.D.3d 929
932 N.Y.S.2d 496
2011 N.Y. Slip Op. 07595
AURORA LOAN SERVICES, LLC, appellant,
v.
Paul LOPA, respondent, et al., defendants.
Supreme Court, Appellate Division, Second Department, New York.
Oct. 25, 2011.
[932 N.Y.S.2d 497]
Akerman Senterfitt LLP, New York, N.Y. (Jordan M. Smith of counsel), for appellant.Law Offices of Robert E. Brown, P.C. (Rae Downes Koshetz, P.C., New York, N.Y., of counsel), for respondent.DANIEL D. ANGIOLILLO, J.P., JOHN M. LEVENTHAL, LEONARD B. AUSTIN, and SHERI S. ROMAN, JJ.[88 A.D.3d 929] In an action to foreclose a mortgage, the plaintiff appeals, as limited by its brief, from so much of an order of the Supreme Court, Richmond County (Fusco, J.), dated July 16, 2010, as granted that branch of the motion of the defendant Paul Lopa which was pursuant to CPLR 3211(a) to dismiss the complaint insofar as asserted against him.
ORDERED that the order is reversed insofar as appealed from, [88 A.D.3d 930] on the law, with costs, and that branch of the motion of the defendant Paul Lopa which was pursuant to CPLR 3211(a) to dismiss the complaint insofar as asserted against him is denied.
In April 2007 the defendant Paul Lopa executed a note, secured by a mortgage on certain real property located in Staten Island. The mortgage was later assigned by Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as nominee for the lender, its successors and assigns, to the plaintiff. In February 2009 the plaintiff commenced this mortgage foreclosure action. The complaint demanded, inter alia, the sale of the mortgaged premises, and requested that Lopa be adjudged to pay any remaining deficiency. Thereafter, Lopa moved, among other things, pursuant to CPLR 3211(a) to dismiss the complaint insofar as asserted against him on the ground that the plaintiff could not simultaneously seek a judgment on the note and a judgment of foreclosure. In an order dated July 16, 2010, the Supreme Court granted the aforementioned branch of Lopa's motion. We reverse the order insofar as appealed from.
“The holder of a note and mortgage may proceed at law to recover on the note or proceed in equity to foreclose on the mortgage, but must only elect one of these alternate remedies” ( Gizzi v. Hall, 309 A.D.2d 1140, 1141, 767 N.Y.S.2d 469; see RPAPL 1301; Sabbatini v. Galati, 14 A.D.3d 547, 548, 789 N.Y.S.2d 504). RPAPL 1301(1) “is the embodiment of the equitable principle that once a remedy at law has been resorted to, it must be exercised to exhaustion...
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