DEFENDANT RAISED A QUESTION OF FACT WHETHER THE NOTE SUBMITTED BY THE BANK TO DEMONSTRATE STANDING TO FORECLOSE WAS THE NOTE SHE SIGNED (SECOND DEPT).
The Second Department, reversing Supreme Court, determined defendant had raised a question of fact whether the bank had standing to foreclosure by producing a note that was different from the note submitted by the bank to demonstrate standing:
… [T]he defendant raised a triable issue of fact as to whether the plaintiff had produced the unpaid note and had standing to commence the action, by submitting, among other things, a copy of another version of the note, purportedly produced by the plaintiff in this litigation, bearing a different version of the defendant’s purported signature and initials than the note relied upon by the plaintiff in support of its motion. In an affidavit submitted in opposition to the plaintiff’s motion, the defendant averred that she only signed one copy of the note at closing, and denied that any of the copies of the note produced by the plaintiff were the note she signed … . JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A. v Rodriguez, 2022 NY Slip Op 00411, Second Dept 1-26-22