BECKFORD v. NORTHEASTERN MORTGAGE INVESTMENT CORP.


262 A.D.2d 436 (1999)

692 N.Y.S.2d 412

CHARLES BECKFORD, Appellant, v. NORTHEASTERN MORTGAGE INVESTMENT CORP., Respondent.

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, Second Department.

Decided June 14, 1999.


Ordered that the judgment is affirmed insofar as appealed from, with costs.

The plaintiff commenced this action alleging that the defendant was grossly negligent in relying upon a fraudulent, unsealed photostatic copy of his purported death certificate when it granted a mortgage loan to his wife while their divorce action was still pending. We agree that the defendant did not owe the plaintiff a duty of care to ascertain the accuracy of the information provided to...

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