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PLAINTIFF BANK DID NOT SUBMIT SUFFICIENT PROOF OF ITS STANDING TO BRING THE FORECLOSURE ACTION (SECOND DEPT).

The Second Department, reversing Supreme Court, determined plaintiff bank did not submit sufficient proof of standing to bring the foreclosure action:

… [W]hile the plaintiff alleged that the note had been endorsed to it, the plaintiff failed to submit sufficient evidence to demonstrate that a copy of the note with the endorsement was attached to the complaint. The only copy of the complaint that appears in the record before us was submitted as an exhibit in support of Williams’s [defendant’s] motion, and the version of the note accompanying that copy of the complaint did not include the endorsement. The plaintiff’s attempt to establish standing through the submission of the affidavit of Morgan Battle Ames, a contract management coordinator for the plaintiff’s loan servicer, was also insufficient. Ames stated that she had “personal knowledge of the stated facts and circumstances and books and records maintained by [the loan servicer],” and that the “information in this affidavit is taken from [the loan servicer’s] business records,” which were “recorded by persons with personal knowledge of the information in the business record.” Since Ames failed to attest that she was personally familiar with the record-keeping practices and procedures of the entity that generated the subject business records, she failed to demonstrate … . HSBC Bank USA, N.A. v Williams, 2019 NY Slip Op 08554, Second Dept 11-27-19

 

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