DLJ MORTGAGE CAPITAL, INC. v. KONTOGIANNIS, 22 N.Y.3d 960 (2013)
Court: Court of Appeals of New York
Number: innyco20131114226
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Filed: Nov. 14, 2013
Latest Update: Nov. 14, 2013
Summary: OPINION OF THE COURT MEMORANDUM. The order of the Appellate Division should be affirmed, with costs, and the certified question answered in the affirmative. As a matter of law, DLJ, as a third-party purchaser of mortgages on the secondary mortgage market, cannot rely on pre-closing documents to establish that a proper conveyance and recording of the underlying property occurred or that title insurance for the property was issued ( see Citibank v Chicago Tit. Ins. Co., 214 A.D.2d 212 , 219 [1
Summary: OPINION OF THE COURT MEMORANDUM. The order of the Appellate Division should be affirmed, with costs, and the certified question answered in the affirmative. As a matter of law, DLJ, as a third-party purchaser of mortgages on the secondary mortgage market, cannot rely on pre-closing documents to establish that a proper conveyance and recording of the underlying property occurred or that title insurance for the property was issued ( see Citibank v Chicago Tit. Ins. Co., 214 A.D.2d 212 , 219 [1s..
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OPINION OF THE COURT
MEMORANDUM.
The order of the Appellate Division should be affirmed, with costs, and the certified question answered in the affirmative. As a matter of law, DLJ, as a third-party purchaser of mortgages on the secondary mortgage market, cannot rely on pre-closing documents to establish that a proper conveyance and recording of the underlying property occurred or that title insurance for the property was issued (see Citibank v Chicago Tit. Ins. Co., 214 A.D.2d 212, 219 [1st Dept 1995], lv dismissed 87 N.Y.2d 896 [1995]). The Appellate Division correctly determined that any such reliance was unjustifiable.
Chief Judge LIPPMAN and Judges GRAFFEO, READ, SMITH, PIGOTT, RIVERA and ABDUS-SALAAM concur.
On review of submissions pursuant to section 500.11 of the Rules of the Court of Appeals (22 NYCRR 500.11), order affirmed, with costs, and certified question answered in the affirmative, in a memorandum.
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