[brief] | TABLE OF JUDGMENTS, ORDERS AND RULINGS  Order Granting Summary Judgment, Filed March 4, 2024……………………………Pa442  Oral Decision, March 1, 2024……………………………………………………………..1T  # TABLE OF AUTHORITIES | Cases | Page(s) | |----------------------------------------------------------------------|---------| | **Bello v. Lyndhurst Bd. of Educ.,** | | | 344 N.J. Super. 187 (App. Div. 2001) | 12 | | **Branch v. Cream-O-Land Dairy,** | | | 244 N.J. 567 (2021) | 12 | | **Brill v. Guardian Life Ins. Co. of Am.,** | | | 142 N.J. 520 (1995) | 12 | | **Cent. Penn Nat’l Bank v. Stonebridge, Ltd.,** | | | 185 N.J. Super. 289 (Ch. Div. 1982) | 25 | | **Clinton Cap. Corp. v. Straeb,** | | | 248 N.J. Super. 19 (Ch. Div. 1990), abrogated on other grounds by Westmark Com. Mortg. Fund IV v. Teenform Assocs., L.P., 362 N.J. Super. 336 (App. Div. 2003) | 16 | | **Deutsche Bank National Trust Co. v. Vezeriannis,** | | | No. A-1376-11T1, 2013 WL 3213627 (N.J. Super. Ct. App. Div. June 27, 2013) | 23 | | **Driscoll Constr. Co. v. State, Dep’t of Transp.,** | | | 371 N.J. Super. 304 (App. Div. 2004) | 13, 19 | | **Great Falls Bank v. Pardo,** | | | 263 N.J. Super. 388 (Ch. Div. 1993), aff’d, 273 N.J. Super. 542 (App. Div. 1994) | 25 | | **Hermann Forwarding Co. v. Pappas Ins. Co.,** | | | 273 N.J. Super. 54 (App. Div. 1994) | 13 | | **Hollywood Café Diner, Inc. v. Jaffee,** | | | 473 N.J. Super. 210 (App. Div. 2022) | 13 | Manalapan Realty, L.P. v. Twp. Comm. of Twp. of Manalapan, 140 N.J. 366 (1995), superseded on other grounds by statute, N.J.S.A. 40:55D-10.5 ..................................................................................................................13 Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. v. Omar, No. A-5187-06T3, 2008 WL 2050834 (N.J. Super. Ct. App. Div. May 15, 2008)...........................................................................................................2, 17, 20-24 O’Keeffe v. Snyder, 83 N.J. 478 (1980) ......................................................................................................19 Sears Mortg. Corp. v. Rose, 134 N.J. 326 (1993) .....................................................................................................24, 25 Thorpe v. Floremoore Corp., 20 N.J. Super. 34 (App. Div. 1952) ............................................................................26 Turner v. Wong, 363 N.J. Super. 186 (App. Div. 2003) .......................................................................12 Statutes Fair Foreclosure Act of the State of New Jersey, N.J.S.A. §§ 2A:50-53 to -68......26 Rules R. 4:64-1 ..........................................................................................................................5 PRELIMINARY STATEMENT Plaintiff-Appellant [...], not in its individual capacity but solely as Owner Trustee for [...] (“Appellant”) appeals from an Order entered on March 4, 2024 (the “Order”) from the Superior Court of New Jersey, Chancery Division, Essex County (the “trial court”), granting Defendant-Respondent [...]’s (“Respondent”) Motion for Summary Judgment, denying Appellant’s Cross-Motion, dismissing the Complaint, dismissing the action with prejudice, expunging and discharging the underlying mortgage recorded in the Office of the Clerk of Essex County on June 6, 2008 in Book 12139, Page 7663 (the “Mortgage”), and deeming the underlying mortgage to be satisfied in full.