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THE BANK FAILED TO DEMONSTRATE STANDING TO BRING THE FORECLOSURE ACTION WITH ADMISSIBLE EVIDENCE; THE BANK’S MOTION FOR SUMMARY JUDGMENT SHOULD NOT HAVE BEEN GRANTED (SECOND DEPT).

The Second Department, reversing Supreme Court, determined plaintiff bank did not demonstrate standing to bring the foreclosure action. The bank’s motion for summary judgment should not have been granted:

The plaintiff failed to present admissible evidence establishing that the plaintiff or its counsel was in possession of the note at the time of commencement of the action. In support of its motion, the plaintiff submitted the affidavit of Howard R. Handville, a senior loan analyst at Ocwen Financial Corporation whose indirect subsidiary is Ocwen Loan Servicing, LLC (hereinafter Ocwen), the plaintiff’s loan servicer. Handville attested that he reviewed the servicing records maintained by Ocwen in its ordinary course of business, that prior servicers’ records were integrated into Ocwen’s records and relied upon by Ocwen and that “[b]ased on [his] review of the Servicing Records, the original Note and Mortgage for the Loan were physically delivered to Plaintiff’s custodian on April 25, 2007, prior to the commencement of this foreclosure action.” Handville further averred that “[s]ince that date, the original Note and Mortgage have remained in the physical possession of Plaintiff or its counsel.” Even if Handville’s affidavit was sufficient to lay a proper foundation for the admission of the “Servicing Records,” the affidavit was insufficient to establish standing because the records themselves were not submitted by the plaintiff. “‘[I]t is the business record itself, not the foundational affidavit, that serves as proof of the matter asserted’ … , and ‘a witness’s description of a document not admitted into evidence is hearsay’ … . Deutsche Bank Natl. Trust Co. v Schmelzinger, 2020 NY Slip Op 07543, Second Dept 12-16-20

 

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