First Nationwide Bank v. Pretel

In an action to foreclose a mortgage, the plaintiff appeals, as limited by its brief, from so much of an order of the Supreme Court, Queens County (Golar, J.), dated June 21, 1996, as, upon its motion for summary judgment, dismissed the complaint insofar as asserted against the defendants Amarante Pretel, First American Title Insurance Company of New York, Mela Alio, and "John” Alio, as abandoned, as the plaintiff had failed to seek leave to enter a timely default judgment against them.

Ordered that the order is reversed insofar as appealed from, on the law, with costs, and the complaint is…