Puretz v Fannie Mae, 2024 NY Slip Op 06228 [233 AD3d 819]

December 11, 2024

Appellate Division, Second Department

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Aron Puretz et al., Respondents,

v

Fannie Mae, Also Known as Federal National Mortgage Association, Defendant, and 382 Bartlett, LLC, Appellant.

Abrams Fensterman, LLP, White Plains, NY (Robert A. Spolzino and Lisa Colosi Florio of counsel), for appellant.

Menashe & Lapa, LLP, Montebello, NY (Chezki Menashe of counsel), for respondents.

In an action, inter alia, pursuant to RPAPL article 15 to quiet title to real property, the defendant 382 Bartlett, LLC, appeals from an order of the Supreme Court, Richmond County (Wayne M. Ozzi, J.), dated January 29, 2021. The order, insofar as appealed from, denied that branch of the motion of the defendant 382 Bartlett, LLC, which was pursuant to CPLR 3025 (b) for leave to amend its answer.

Ordered that the appeal is dismissed, without costs or disbursements.

The appeal must be dismissed as academic in light of our determination on a related appeal ( see Puretz v Fannie Mae , 233 AD3d 816 [2024] [decided herewith]). Duffy, J.P., Wooten, Ford and Taylor, JJ., concur..