Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York December 1, 2009 (U.S. Bank, N.A. v. Collymore)

*753In 2005 the defendant Adrian Collymore (hereinafter the defendant) executed a note to borrow the sum of $569,500 from the New Century Mortgage Corporation (hereinafter New Century). The note was secured by a mortgage on the defendant’s property located in Brooklyn. In July 2006 New Century assigned the mortgage to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc.