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DEFENDANTS RAISED A QUESTION OF FACT ABOUT WHETHER THEY WERE SERVED WITH THE SUMMONS AND COMPLAINT AND PLAINTIFF FAILED TO PROVE COMPLIANCE WITH THE NOTICE REQUIREMENTS OF RPAPL 1304; PLAINTIFF’S MOTION FOR SUMMARY JUDGMENT IN THIS FORECLOSURE ACTION SHOULD NOT HAVE BEEN GRANTED (SECOND DEPT).

The Second Department, reversing Supreme Court, determined plaintiff’s motion for summary judgment in this foreclosure action should not have been granted. Defendants raised a question of fact whether they were served with the summons and complaint and plaintiff failed to prove compliance with the notice requirements of Real Property Actions and Proceedings Law (RPAPL) 1304:

… [T]he defendants submitted the affidavit of Vicki Erani, in which she expressly averred that she was never served. She also averred that, on Thursdays, which was the day of the week of the alleged service, she customarily was away from her residence, assisting her mother with errands. The defendants also submitted the affidavit of Vicki Erani’s mother confirming that Vicki Erani spent every Thursday with her. The defendants also submitted evidence that, in 2016, this particular process server’s application to renew his license as an individual process server had been denied by the New York City Department of Consumer Affairs on the basis that he had falsified affidavits of service. The defendants’ submissions rebutted the presumption of proper service established by the process server’s affidavit … . * * *

… [T]he plaintiff failed to establish, prima facie, that it complied with RPAPL 1304 because neither of the affidavits submitted by the plaintiff of two of its vice presidents asserted personal knowledge of the purported mailing and neither vice president made the requisite showing that she was familiar with the plaintiff’s mailing practices and procedures to establish “proof of a standard office practice and procedure designed to ensure that items are properly addressed and mailed” … . The plaintiff failed to attach, as exhibits to the motion, any documents to prove that the mailing actually happened. Since the plaintiff failed to provide evidence of the actual mailing, or evidence of a standard office mailing procedure designed to ensure that items are properly addressed and mailed, sworn to by someone with personal knowledge of the procedure, the plaintiff failed to establish its strict compliance with RPAPL 1304 … . Citimortgage, Inc. v Erani, 2020 NY Slip Op 00843, Second Dept 2-5-20

 

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