Case Name: Acorn Properties, Inc., Appellant, v. East 7th Realty Associates, Respondent, et al., Defendants
Court: New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1997-04-29
Citations: 238 A.D.2d 279
Docket Number: 
Parties: Acorn Properties, Inc., Appellant, v East 7th Realty Associates, Respondent, et al., Defendants.
Judges: 
Reporter: Appellate Division Reports
Volume: 238
Pages: 279–280

Head Matter:
Acorn Properties, Inc., Appellant, v East 7th Realty Associates, Respondent, et al., Defendants.
[656 NYS2d 274]

Opinion:
—Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Elliott Wilk, J.), entered January 12, 1996, which, in a mortgage foreclosure action, insofar as appealed from, denied plaintiffs motion for a deficiency judgment, unanimously affirmed, with costs.
Plaintiffs claims that defendant had committed fraud in procuring the mortgage and waste in managing the property, and that the exception to the nonrecourse provision of the mortgage therefore applied, was properly rejected as untimely, having been first raised only in plaintiffs reply papers on the motion. It was plaintiffs burden to come forward with evi dence, if not in the foreclosure proceeding then certainly in its motion for a deficiency judgment, that defendant had violated a condition of the nonrecourse mortgage (cf., e.g., First Nationwide Bank v Brookhaven Realty Assocs., 223 AD2d 618, lv dismissed 88 NY2d 963). Moreover, the claim of fraud lacks merit (see, FGH Realty Credit Corp. v Bonati, 226 AD2d 188). Concur—Murphy, P. J., Sullivan, Rosenberger, Rubin and Andrias, JJ.