HSBC Bank v. Picarelli

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 (Markey, J.), entered August 8, 2012, as granted that branch of the cross motion of the defendants Maryann Picarelli and Margaret Rappold which was for leave to serve and file an amended answer to assert a defense based on lack of standing.

Ordered that the order is affirmed insofar as appealed from, with costs.

Leave to amend a pleading “shall be freely given” (CPLR 3025 [b]), provided that the amendment is not palpably insufficient as a matter of…