NATIONAL CITY MORTGAGE CO v. Berish Welz, intervenor-appellant. (2025)

DECISION & ORDER

In an action to foreclose a mortgage, the intervenor, Berish Welz, appeals from an order of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Lawrence Knipel, J.), dated September 7, 2023.  The order denied the motion of the intervenor to fix the amount of an undertaking for a stay pursuant to CPLR 5519(a)(6) pending the determination of an appeal from an order and judgment of foreclosure and sale (one paper) of the same court dated November 4, 2022.

ORDERED that the order is affirmed, with costs.

On the day of a scheduled foreclosure sale, the intervenor, Berish Welz, moved to fix the amount of an undertaking for a stay pursuant to CPLR 5519(a)(6) pending this Court's determination of an appeal from an order and judgment of foreclosure and sale dated November 4, 2022.  The Supreme Court denied the motion on the ground that the foreclosure sale had already taken place.  The intervenor appeals.

The intervenor's contention that the foreclosure sale should have been stayed pending the determination of the appeal from the order and judgment of foreclosure and sale was rendered academic since the foreclosure sale took place before the motion to fix the amount of an undertaking was heard (see Bank of N.Y. Mellon v. Lewis, 200 A.D.3d 970, 971, 159 N.Y.S.3d 114).  Accordingly, the Supreme Court properly denied the motion to fix the amount of an undertaking.

BARROS, J.P., IANNACCI, WAN and GOLIA, JJ., concur.