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THE LOAN SERVICER’S AFFIDAVIT IN THIS FORECLOSURE ACTION LAID A PROPER FOUNDATION FOR THE BUSINESS RECORDS DESCRIBED IN IT, BUT THE RECORDS THEMSELVES WERE NOT ATTACHED, RENDERING THE AFFIDAVIT INADMISSIBLE HEARSAY (SECOND DEPT).

The Second Department, reversing Supreme Court, determined plaintiff’s representative in this foreclosure action demonstrated in her affidavit that she was familiar with the relevant business records, but did not attach the records. Therefor the affidavit was hearsay:

… [T]he plaintiff submitted … the affidavit of Denise Dickman, … the plaintiff’s loan servicer, who averred that she was familiar with the business records maintained … for the purpose of servicing mortgage loans for the plaintiff and that she had personal knowledge of the manner in which those business records were created. Dickman further averred that the satisfaction of mortgage was intended to be recorded against the second mortgage, under which the defendant had defaulted and which [the bank] had “charged off as uncollectable.” However, “[d]ue to a clerical error, a loan number was not included with the processing request for the charge off,” and, consequently, a satisfaction of mortgage was “prepared, executed and filed in error” … .

Since Dickman attested that she was familiar with [the bank’s] record-keeping practices and procedures, her affidavit laid a proper foundation for the admission of the business records on which she relied in asserting that the satisfaction of mortgage was erroneously filed due to a clerical error … . However, Dickman’s assertions as to the contents of those records were inadmissible since the records themselves were not submitted with her affidavit … . U.S. Bank N.A. v Kandra, 2021 NY Slip Op 04679, Second Dept 8-11-21

 

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