Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. v. Elliot

*912There is no authority for the allowance of an attorney’s fee from the surplus funds in an action to foreclose a mortgage (see Reilly v Empire State Improvement Corp., 251 NY 351, 353 [1929]; Realty Assoc. Sec. Corp. v Jaybar Realty Corp., 257 App Div 1001, 1001 [1939], affd 282 NY 603 [1940]; Sadow v Poskin Realty Corp., 63 Mise 2d 499, 508-509 [1970]). Thus, the Supreme Court was without authority to award $3,000 from the surplus funds to Sweeney, Gallo, Reich & Bolz, LLP attorneys for the nonparty claimant Citimortgage, Inc., as an attorney’s fee.

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