| Nationscredit Fin. Servs. Corp. v Turcios |
| 2008 NY Slip Op 08105 [55 AD3d 806] |
| October 21, 2008 |
| Appellate Division, Second Department |
| Nationscredit Financial Services Corporation, as Successor in Interest toEquicredit Corporation of NY, Appellant, v Luis A. Turcios et al., Respondents, et al.,Defendants. |
—[*1] Jeffrey M. Novick, Woodbury, N.Y. (Debra A. Kruper of counsel), for respondents.
In an action to foreclose a mortgage, the plaintiff appeals from an order of the Supreme Court,Suffolk County (R. Doyle, J.), dated July 17, 2007, which denied its motion to strike the jury demandof the defendants Luis A. Turcios and Aurora Velasquez.
Ordered that the order is reversed, on the law, with costs, and the motion is granted.
The Supreme Court improperly denied the plaintiff's motion to strike a jury demand filed by thedefendant mortgagors Luis A. Turcios and Aurora Velasquez (hereinafter the defendants). Where, ashere, a defendant interposes a counterclaim of an equitable nature related to a cause of action assertedin the complaint, the defendant thereby waives a jury trial on all causes of action, whether legal orequitable in nature (see Herbil Holding Co. vMitrany, 11 AD3d 430 [2004]; Goldberg v Goldberg, 173 AD2d 679, 681 [1991];Seneca v Novaro, 80 AD2d 909, 910 [1981]; Compact Electra Corp. v Connell, 46AD2d 649, 650 [1974]; Academy St. Realty Corp. v Young, 25 AD2d 435 [1966]).Accordingly, the Supreme Court should have granted the plaintiff's motion to strike the defendants' jurydemand. Mastro, J.P., Fisher, McCarthy and Leventhal, JJ., concur.