HSBC Bank USA, Nat'l Ass'n v. Walker

Decision Date19 January 2022
Docket Number2019–05487,Index No. 9362/08
Citation201 A.D.3d 795,162 N.Y.S.3d 82
Parties HSBC BANK USA, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, etc., respondent, v. Conrad WALKER, appellant, et al., defendants.
CourtNew York Supreme Court — Appellate Division

201 A.D.3d 795
162 N.Y.S.3d 82

HSBC BANK USA, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, etc., respondent,
v.
Conrad WALKER, appellant, et al., defendants.

2019–05487
Index No. 9362/08

Supreme Court, Appellate Division, Second Department, New York.

Submitted—November 8, 2021
January 19, 2022


162 N.Y.S.3d 83

IM Law Group, Cedarhurst, NY, for appellant.

Gross Polowy, LLC, Williamsville, NY (Douglas C. Weinert of counsel), for respondent.

FRANCESCA E. CONNOLLY, J.P., CHERYL E. CHAMBERS, SYLVIA O. HINDS–RADIX, ROBERT J. MILLER, JJ.

162 N.Y.S.3d 84

DECISION & ORDER

201 A.D.3d 795

In

201 A.D.3d 796

an action to foreclose a mortgage, the defendant Conrad Walker appeals from an order of the Supreme Court, Queens County (Mojgan Cohanim Lancman, J.), dated March 22, 2019. The order denied that defendant's motion pursuant to CPLR 5015(a)(2), (3), and (4) to vacate a judgment of foreclosure and sale of the same court (Jeremy S. Weinstein, J.) entered March 14, 2018, and an order of reference of the same court (Diccia T. Pineda–Kirwan, J.) entered August 30, 2016.

ORDERED that the order dated March 22, 2019, is affirmed, with costs.

In 2008, the plaintiff commenced this action against the defendant Conrad Walker (hereinafter the defendant), among others, to foreclose a mortgage on real property located in Queens. The defendant neither answered the complaint or otherwise appeared in the action. In 2016, the plaintiff obtained an order of reference upon the defendant's default. In a judgment of foreclosure and sale entered March 14, 2018, the Supreme Court confirmed the referee's report and directed the sale of the subject premises.

In April 2019, the defendant moved pursuant to CPLR 5015(a)(2), (3), and (4) to vacate the order of reference and judgment of foreclosure and sale. In an order dated March 22, 2019, the Supreme Court denied the defendant's motion. The defendant appeals, and we affirm.

The Supreme Court properly denied that branch of the defendant's motion which was pursuant to CPLR 5015(a)(4) to vacate the order of reference and judgement of foreclosure and sale for lack of personal jurisdiction. The affidavit of the process server constituted prima facie evidence of proper service (see Nationstar Mtge., LLC v. Cohen, 185 A.D.3d 1039, 1040, 128 N.Y.S.3d 574 ; HSBC Bank USA, N.A. v. Whitter, 159 A.D.3d 942, 945, 74 N.Y.S.3d 285 ). To be entitled to vacatur of a default judgment under CPLR 5015(a)(4), a defendant must overcome the presumption raised by the process server's affidavit of service (see HSBC Bank USA v. Archer, 173 A.D.3d 984,...

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