Chase Manhattan Bank v. Beckerman

—In an action to foreclose a mortgage, the defendants Ray Beckerman and Susan Beckerman appeal from (1) an order of the Supreme Court, Queens County (Schmidt, J.), dated August 25, 1998, which denied as academic their motion pursuant to CPLR 322 (a), inter alia, for written evidence that the plaintiffs counsel had authority to prosecute the instant action, and (2) so much of an order of the same court dated November 16, 1998, as denied their motion to dismiss the complaint pursuant to CPLR 3211 (a) (7) for failure to state a cause of action.

Ordered that the order dated August 25, 1998, is…