Meeker v. Mayfair Cleaners & Dyers, Inc.

242 A.D. 834

• Court: Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
• Decided: November 15, 1934
• Status: Published

Opinion

Order from wMch an appeal is taken, granted July 9, 1934, modified by striking therefrom the words “ now due and unpaid or,” contained in the first ordering paragraph of the order which it resettles, and as so modified the order is affirmed, without costs. The receiver appointed on. the motion of the second mortgagee on May 15, 1933, held possession of the premises as the representative of the said mortgagee. Particularly was tMs true after the foreclosure and sale of the property on September 27, 1933, although the plaintiff did not fully consummate the sale by taking a deed from the referee. The rents that accrued prior to the extension of the receiversMp to the plaintiff’s first mortgage by the order of March 23, 1934, even though unpaid, were applicable to the payment of any deficiency arising on the foreclosure sale. (New York Life Ins. Co. v. Fulton Development Corp., 241 App. Div. 103.) Lazansky, P. J., Young and Davis, JJ., concur; Kapper and Hagarty, JJ., dissent on the ground that unpaid rents belong to the receiver under the first mortgage, under authority of Palmieri v. New York Preparatory School (232 App. Div. 848) and cases there cited, bemg of the opimon that the second mortgagee is in no better position than the owner.