Onewest Bank, FSB v. Colace

In an action to foreclose a mortgage, the defendant Esther Colace appeals, as limited by her brief, from so much of an order of the Supreme Court, Nassau County (Adams, J.), entered January 18, 2013, as granted those branches of the plaintiff’s motion which were for summary judgment on the complaint and to strike her answer, and denied her cross motion for leave to amend her answer.

Ordered that the order is modified, on the law, (1) by deleting the provisions thereof granting those branches of the plaintiff’s motion which were for summary judgment on the complaint and to strike the answer of…