Giannasca v. Deutsche Bank Nat'l Trust Co.

*775This action arises from a home mortgage foreclosure. The plaintiff, mortgagor Anthony Giannasca, brought the underlying complaint seeking, among other things, a declaratory judgment that defendant Deutsche Bank National Trust Company (Deutsche Bank) had no enforceable mortgage interest in Giannasca's property at 9 Joseph Street in Medford (property). Specifically, Giannasca *776claimed that the assignment of his mortgage from the original mortgagee, Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. (MERS), to Deutsche Bank was invalid and that, as a consequence, Deutsche Bank had no mortgage…