128 A.D.2d 756 | N.Y. App. Div. | 1987
In an action, inter alia, to foreclose a mortgage, the defendant Edith D. Gaughan appeals from an order of the Supreme Court, Richmond County (Sangiorgio, J.), dated December 17, 1985, which, inter alia, granted the plaintiff’s motion for summary judgment.
Ordered that the order is affirmed, without costs or disbursements.
A motion for summary judgment is to be determined upon the facts appearing in the record without regard to technical defects in the pleadings (see, e.g, Gee v Gee, 113 AD2d 736, 737; Javits v Slatus, 93 AD2d 830, 831). In reviewing such a motion, the court may properly "look beyond the defendant’s answer and deny summary judgment if facts are alleged in opposition to the motion which, if true, constitute a meritorious defense” (Nassau Trust Co. v Montrose Concrete Prods. Corp., 56 NY2d 175, 182; see, Curry v Mackenzie, 239 NY 267; Rizzi v Sussman, 9 AD2d 961; Igbara Realty Corp. v New York Prop. Ins. Underwriting Assn. 104 AD2d 258; Adirondack Park Agency v Ton-Da-Lay Assocs., 61 AD2d 107, appeal dismissed 45 NY2d 834).
However, summary judgment was properly granted to the plaintiff mortgagee in this case, inasmuch as the appellant’s opposing papers did not raise a meritorious defense to the