Lipton v. Specter

— In an action to foreclose a second mortgage, defendants Kenneth and Sylvia Specter appeal from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Queens County (Buschmann, J.), dated October 15, 1982, which, inter alia, foreclosed a second mortgage on certain premises and directed a public auction thereof subject to the prior mortgage. Judgment modified, on the law, by striking from the first decretal paragraph thereof the award of $3,200 in counsel fees to plaintiffs, by reducing the principal amount of the judgment by said sum from $41,103.15 to $37,903.15, and by adding thereto a provision denying counsel…