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MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC. v. REID

2010-01842.

85 A.D.3d 880 (2011)

925 N.Y.S.2d 359

2011 NY Slip Op 5242

MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC., et al., Respondents, v. MAVIS REID et al., Appellants, et al., Defendants.

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

Decided June 14, 2011.

Ordered that the order is affirmed, with costs.

The Supreme Court properly denied the motion of the defendants Mavis Reid and Shen-Reka Clarke (hereinafter together the homeowners) for leave to amend their answer to assert additional counterclaims. Leave to amend pleadings should be liberally granted (see CPLR 3025 [b]). However, when the proposed amendment is palpably insufficient to state a cause of action or is patently devoid of merit, leave to amend should...

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