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Southern Fin. Group, Inc. v. Collins

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, Second Department
Apr 26, 2004
6 A.D.3d 692 (N.Y. App. Div. 2004)

Opinion

2002-10974, 2003-03109.

Decided April 26, 2004.

In an action to foreclose a mortgage, the plaintiff appeals, as limited by its brief, (1) from stated portions of a judgment of the Supreme Court, Putnam County (Hickman, J.), entered October 31, 2002, which, upon an order of the same court dated October 7, 2002, denying the plaintiff's motion, in effect, for summary judgment and granting the defendants' motion, inter alia, to dismiss the complaint, dismissed the complaint, among other things, and (2) from so much of an order of the same court dated March 10, 2003, as, upon granting that branch of the plaintiff's motion which was for leave to reargue, adhered to its original determination.

Knuckles Komosinski, P.C., White Plains, N.Y. (Mark R. Knuckles of counsel), for appellant.

Marshall S. Belkin, Yorktown Heights, N.Y., for respondents.

Before: HOWARD MILLER, J.P., GLORIA GOLDSTEIN, THOMAS A. ADAMS, BARRY A. COZIER, JJ.


DECISION ORDER

ORDERED that the judgment and order are affirmed insofar as appealed from, with one bill of costs.

Contrary to the plaintiff's contention, the Supreme Court properly determined that the subject mortgage was usurious, and thus, void and unenforceable ( see generally Hammelburger v. Foursome Inn Corp., 54 N.Y.2d 580). Accordingly, the complaint was properly dismissed.

The plaintiff's remaining contention is without merit.

H. MILLER, J.P., GOLDSTEIN, ADAMS and COZIER, JJ., concur.


Summaries of

Southern Fin. Group, Inc. v. Collins

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, Second Department
Apr 26, 2004
6 A.D.3d 692 (N.Y. App. Div. 2004)
Case details for

Southern Fin. Group, Inc. v. Collins

Case Details

Full title:SOUTHERN FINANCIAL GROUP, INC., appellant, v. PAUL COLLINS, ET AL.…

Court:Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, Second Department

Date published: Apr 26, 2004

Citations

6 A.D.3d 692 (N.Y. App. Div. 2004)
775 N.Y.S.2d 161

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