| Emigrant Mtge. Co., Inc. v Teel |
| 2010 NY Slip Op 05723 [74 AD3d 1275] |
| June 29, 2010 |
| Appellate Division, Second Department |
| Emigrant Mortgage Company, Inc.,Respondent, v Reginald Teel, Appellant, et al., Defendants. |
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In an action, inter alia, to foreclose a mortgage, the defendant Reginald Teel, asadministrator of the estate of Flossie Teel, appeals, as limited by his brief, from so much of anorder of the Supreme Court, Westchester County (DiBella, J.), entered August 27, 2009, asgranted that branch of the plaintiff's motion which was to appoint a referee to compute theamount due and owing to it, and denied his cross motion, in effect, to vacate his default inanswering the complaint or appearing in the action, and for leave to interpose an answer.
Ordered that the order is affirmed insofar as appealed from, with costs.
The appellant failed to offer a reasonable excuse for his failure to answer or appear in theaction and did not set forth the existence of a potentially meritorious defense to foreclosure(see NYCTL 2005-A Trust v 2137-2153 Nostrand Ave. Assoc., L.P., 69 AD3d 697, 698[2010]). Accordingly, the Supreme Court properly denied his cross motion, in effect, to vacatehis default and for leave to interpose an answer, and properly granted that branch of theplaintiff's motion which was to appoint a referee to compute the amount due and owing to it(see CPLR 5015 [a] [1]; Eugene Di Lorenzo, Inc. v A.C. Dutton Lbr. Co., 67NY2d 138, 141 [1986]; 393 Lefferts Partners, LLC v New York Ave. at Lefferts, LLC,68 AD3d 976 [2009]; Bank of N.Y. v Segui, 42 AD3d 555 [2007]; Chase ManhattanMtge. Corp. v Murphy, 2 AD3d 559 [2003]). Rivera, J.P., Balkin, Austin and Roman, JJ.,concur.