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WHETHER THE ENDORSEMENT WAS AFFIXED TO THE NOTE, A STANDING REQUIREMENT, WAS NOT RAISED BY THE DEFENDANTS ON APPEAL AND THEREFORE COULD NOT BE CONSIDERED BY THE APPELLATE COURT (SECOND DEPT).

The Second Department, over a partial dissent, determined that the plaintiff had established standing to bring the foreclosure action. The issue whether the endorsement was affixed to the note, the issue raised by the dissent, was not raised on appeal, according to the majority, and therefore could not be considered:

We disagree with our dissenting colleague on the issue of whether the plaintiff established that the note was properly endorsed pursuant to the Uniform Commercial Code and, thus, validly transferred to it. The defendants’ brief, at most, mentions in passing UCC 3-202(1) along with other boilerplate legal discussion, but then relates the UCC provision to an argument that the plaintiff failed to prove the authority of the assignor to negotiate the note. Further, in challenging the endorsement itself, the defendants focus in their brief on the plaintiff’s failure to establish the signature and authority of David A. Spector, whose name is on the endorsement, and the plaintiff’s failure to prove the chain of assignments, but the defendants do not actually raise the issue of the affixation of the endorsement to the note. The defendants’ brief focuses almost entirely upon the enforceability of the assignment, not the issue of physical possession of the note or endorsement. To the extent physical possession is argued by the defendants, their argument is that the plaintiff failed to prove when the note was received and the circumstances of its delivery, without raising any issue about this particular endorsement being firmly affixed to the note. As a result, the dispositive basis of the dissent, having not been argued on appeal, is simply not before us to consider. It is not appropriate for us to decide an appeal “on a distinct ground that we winkled out wholly on our own” … , where no party has had notice and an opportunity to be heard on this ground. Green Tree Servicing, LLC v Molini, 2019 NY Slip Op 02686, Second Dept 4-10-19

 

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