Aurora Loan Servs., LLC. v. Sobanke
Decision Date | 26 December 2012 |
Citation | 101 A.D.3d 1065,2012 N.Y. Slip Op. 09017,957 N.Y.S.2d 379 |
Parties | AURORA LOAN SERVICES, LLC., appellant, v. Toyin SOBANKE, et al., defendants. |
Court | New York Supreme Court — Appellate Division |
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Tompkins, McGuire, Wachenfeld & Barry, LLP, New York, N.Y. (Margaret J. Cascino of counsel), for appellant.
PETER B. SKELOS, J.P., L. PRISCILLA HALL, LEONARD B. AUSTIN, and SYLVIA HINDS–RADIX, JJ.
In an action to foreclose a mortgage, the plaintiff appeals from (1) an order of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Schack, J.), dated November 3, 2010, which provided that the plaintiff's ex parte motion for an order of reference and the complaint would be dismissed unless, within 60 days of the issuance of that order, the plaintiff submitted an attorney affirmation attesting to the accuracy of the plaintiff's documents, and (2) an order of the same court dated January 10, 2011, which, sua sponte, directed the dismissal of the complaint with prejudice and the cancellation of a certain notice of pendency filed against the subject real property.
ORDERED that the order dated January 10, 2011, is reversed, on the law, without costs or disbursements.
In 2009, the plaintiff commenced this action to foreclose a mortgage against the defendant Toyin Sobanke and additional defendants. No defendant has answered the complaint. In September 2009, the plaintiff moved, ex parte, for an order of reference. In an order dated November 3, 2010, the Supreme Court indicated that it would not consider the plaintiff's ex parte motion unless, within 60 days of the issuance of that order, the plaintiff submitted an attorney affirmation attesting to the accuracy of the plaintiff's documents. The court also indicated that the plaintiff's ex parte motion and the complaint would be dismissed unless the attorney affirmation was filed within the 60–day deadline.
Before the 60–day deadline had passed, the plaintiff filed a notice of withdrawal, requesting that its ex parte motion for an order of reference be withdrawn, so that it could provide the Supreme Court with the requested attorney affirmation. No determination on the plaintiff's request to withdraw its ex parte motion was made. Instead, in an order dated January 10, 2011, issued approximately one week after the 60–day deadline had passed, the Supreme Court, sua sponte, directed the...
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