New Century Mtge. Corp. v McDonald (2013 NY Slip Op 00125)

New Century Mtge. Corp. v McDonald

2013 NY Slip Op 00125 [102 AD3d 465]

January 10, 2013

Appellate Division, First Department

Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431.

As corrected through Wednesday, February 27, 2013

New Century Mortgage Corporation, Respondent,
v
Nicola McDonald, Respondent, and Rolda V. Furlonge et al., Appellants, et al., Defendants. (And Another Action.)

—[*1] McMillian, Constabile, Maker & Perone, LLP, Larchmont (Gary Kyme of counsel), for appellants.

DelBello Donnellan Weingarten Wise & Wiederkehr, LLP, White Plains (Jacob E. Amir of counsel), for New Century Mortgage Corporation, respondent.

Law Offices of Joseph A. Altman, P.C., Bronx (Joseph A. Altman of counsel), for Nicola McDonald, respondent.

Judgment, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Kenneth L. Thompson, J.), entered August 30, 2011, inter alia, adjudging defendant Nicola McDonald the rightful owner of the subject property, unanimously affirmed, with costs.

Defendants Rolda V. Furlonge and First Franklin failed to establish prima facie that Furlonge paid valuable consideration for the property and therefore was a bona fide purchaser entitled to the protection of Real Property Law § 291 or § 266 (see Commandment Keepers Ethiopian [*2]Hebrew Congregation of the Living God, Pillar & Ground of Truth, Inc. v 31 Mount Morris Park, LLC, 76 AD3d 465 [1st Dept 2010]; HSBC Mtge. Servs., Inc. v Alphonso, 58 AD3d 598, 600 [2d Dept 2009]). Concur—Friedman, J.P., Sweeny, Acosta, Abdus-Salaam and Manzanet-Daniels, JJ.