Citibank, N.A. v. Bravo

OPINION OF THE COURT

Phillip R. Rumsey, J.

“In June 2013, plaintiff commenced this foreclosure action on residential real property—mortgaged in January 2008 for about $82,600—owned by defendants David Cullen Bravo and Christine Bravo Cullen (hereinafter collectively referred to as defendants) in the Town of Dryden, Tompkins County. Defendants answered asserting, among other things, that plaintiff was not the holder of the note. After a series of delays resulting primarily from conduct by plaintiff and its attorneys which prompted two preclusion motions by defendants, Supreme Court granted the…