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THE BUSINESS RECORDS REFERRED TO IN THE PLAINTIFF’S AFFIDAVIT DEMONSTRATING DEFENDANT’S DEFAULT IN THIS FORECLOSURE ACTION WERE NOT ATTACHED, RENDERING THE AFFIDAVIT HEARSAY (SECOND DEPT). ​

The Second Department, reversing Supreme Court in this foreclosure action, determined the failure to submit the business records referred to in plaintiff’s affidavit rendered the affidavit hearsay. Therefore plaintiff bank did not present prima facie proof of defendant’s default:

… [T]he plaintiff submitted an affidavit of an employee of its loan servicer, who averred that he reviewed certain business records maintained by the loan servicer and the defendant defaulted in making payments on the mortgage debt. However, the affiant failed to submit any business record substantiating the alleged default … . “Conclusory affidavits lacking a factual basis are without evidentiary value” … . Even assuming that the subject affidavit established a sufficient foundation for the records relied upon, “it is the business record itself, not the foundational affidavit, that serves as proof of the matter asserted” … . Accordingly, the affiant’s assertions regarding the defendant’s alleged default, without the business records upon which he relied in making those assertions, constituted inadmissible hearsay … . MTGLQ Invs., L.P. v Rashid, 2023 NY Slip Op 00859, Second Dept 2-15-23

Practice Point: An affidavit based upon business records which are not attached is hearsay.

 

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