US Bank Natl. Assn. as Trustee v. Gutierrez

Order, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Mitchell J. Danziger, J.), entered September 17, 2014, which granted the motion of defendant Engels Rafael Gutierrez for summary judgment dismissing the complaint as against him and denied plaintiff’s cross motion for summary judgment, unanimously modified, on the law, to deny defendant’s motion, and otherwise affirmed, without costs.

Plaintiff contends that it should have been granted summary judgment because, even if the note on which it sues was forged, defendant ratified it as a matter of law. This argument is unavailing. “ [R] atification is a question…