First Franklin Financial Corp. v. Forrest

In an action to foreclose a mortgage, the defendant appeals from an order of the Supreme Court, Nassau County (Adams, J.), entered June 29, 2010, which denied her motion, in effect, to vacate a judgment of foreclosure and sale of the same court (Martin, J.), entered January 16, 2009, which was entered upon her default in answering the complaint.

Ordered that the order is affirmed, with costs.

Under the circumstances of this case, the defendant has failed to demonstrate that the invocation of a court’s inherent power to vacate a judgment in the interest of substantial justice is warranted (see…