Hopper v. Lockey

Appeal from an order of the Supreme Court (Ferradino, J.), entered March 3, 2004 in Saratoga County, which denied defendants’ cross motion seeking a declaration that a certain note and mortgage constituted a valid lien.

This case represents another chapter in the long, tortuous litigation between these parties (see 8 AD3d 802 [2004]; 241 AD2d 892 [1997]). In 1983, plaintiff and her husband, defendant Raymond H. Lockey, Jr. (hereinafter defendant), purchased two contiguous parcels of real property (see 241 AD2d 892, 892 [1997], supra). Between 1985 and 1992, the property was improved and…