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THE REFEREE’S REPORT IN THIS FORECLOSURE ACTION SHOULD NOT HAVE BEEN CONFIRMED; THE REFEREE RELIED ON HEARSAY AND FAILED TO CONDUCT A HEARING ON NOTICE AS REQUIRED BY THE CPLR (SECOND DEPT).

The Second Department, reversing Supreme Court, determined the referee’s report should not have been confirmed.  The evidence of default presented to the referee was hearsay and the referee did not hold a hearing on notice as required by CPLR 4320:

… [W]ith respect to the amount due to the plaintiff, the referee based his findings on the affidavit of Nicholas J. Raab, an employee of Specialized Loan Servicing, LLC, the plaintiff’s loan servicing agent for the subject loan. While Raab provided a proper foundation for the admission of business records made by a prior servicer … , he failed to attach the business records themselves to his affidavit. Accordingly, Raab’s assertions regarding the date of the defendant’s default in making her mortgage payments, the total sum due to the plaintiff, which included the amount of accrued interest calculated from the date of default, and amounts purportedly paid in an escrow advance and for property preservation, without the business records themselves, constituted inadmissible hearsay … .

… [T]he referee should not have computed the amount due to the plaintiff without holding a hearing on notice to the defendant (see CPLR 4313 …). “While [the] Supreme Court has the authority to engage a Referee to compute and report the amount due under a mortgage (see, RPAPL 1321[1]), and can, in its order of reference, define the scope of the reference and delineate the Referee’s powers and duties thereunder (CPLR 4311), absent any specified restrictions the Referee has those powers and duties delineated in CPLR article 43 and also must comply with the procedures specified therein … . One of the specified procedures is the conducting of a hearing (CPLR 4320[a]), upon notice (CPLR 4313)” … . Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. v Yesmin, 2020 NY Slip Op 05257, Second Dept 9-30-20

 

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