HSBC Bank USA, National Ass'n v. Clayton

In an action to foreclose a mortgage, the defendant Larinzo Clayton, also known as Larinzo D. Clayton, appeals, as limited by his brief, from so much of an order of the Supreme Court, Nassau County (Adams, J.), entered May 9, 2014, as granted that branch of the plaintiff’s motion which was for an order of reference and for leave to enter a default judgment against him upon his failure to appear or answer the complaint.

Ordered that the appeal is dismissed, without costs or disbursements.

The appeal from the order must be dismissed because the right of direct appeal therefrom terminated with the…