The motion court correctly declined to address Cruz's jurisdictional argument, because defendant Norberto Oliveras's death approximately three years after this mortgage foreclosure action was commenced had automatically divested it of jurisdiction, and no substitution had been made (see Noriega v Presbyterian Hosp. in City of N.Y.,
Contrary to Cruz's contention, the court properly dismissed...
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