Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York February 17, 2016, 2014-11289 (Citimortgage, Inc. v. Espinal)

In an action to foreclose a mortgage, the plaintiff appeals from an order of the Supreme Court, Nassau County (Winslow, J.), entered May 2, 2014, which denied its unopposed motion pursuant to CPLR 2221 (e) for leave to renew, in effect, that branch of its prior motion which was for an order of reference, which had been denied in an order of the same court dated December 24, 2007, and, sua sponte,