Supreme Court, Appellate Division, Second Department, New York.
In the Matter of BSL DEVELOPMENT CORP., Respondent,
v.
AQUABOGUE COVE PARTNERS, INC., Appellant.
Feb. 21, 1995.
 Mortgagee appealed from order of the Supreme Court, Suffolk County, Lama, J., 
declaring mortgage conveyance fraudulent and setting it aside until money 
judgment entered in favor of prospective purchaser and against mortgagor was 
fully satisfied.   The Supreme Court, Appellate Division, held that mortgage 
conveyance was made without fair consideration and was fraudulent as to 
prospective purchaser, and thus, conveyance was properly set aside until 
purchaser's money judgment against mortgagor was satisfied.
 Affirmed.
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Mortgage conveyance was made without fair consideration and was fraudulent as to 
prospective property purchaser, and thus, conveyance was properly set aside 
until purchaser's money judgment against mortgagor was satisfied; mortgagor was 
defendant in action for money damages for breaching sales contract when mortgage 
conveyance was made, mortgagor failed to satisfy final judgment in purchaser's 
favor, and mortgagee could not prove its claim that $8,000,000 of face amount of 
mortgage represented payment of antecedent debt owed by mortgagor to another 
lender.  McKinney's Debtor and Creditor Law § §  272, 273-a, 278, subd. 1, par. 
a.
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Conveyance made without fair consideration by defendant in action for money 
damages is fraudulent as to plaintiff in that action without regard to actual 
intent of defendant if, after final judgment for plaintiff, defendant fails to 
satisfy judgment.  McKinney's Debtor and Creditor Law §  273-a.
 **254 Kirschenbaum & Kirschenbaum, Garden City, NY (Samuel Kirschenbaum and Ira 
Levine, of counsel), for appellant.
 Anthony V. Labozzetta, New York City, for respondent.
 Before BRACKEN, J.P., and ROSENBLATT, O'BRIEN and ALTMAN, JJ.
 *694 MEMORANDUM BY THE COURT.
 In a proceeding pursuant to CPLR 5239 to determine the rights of the parties in 
the property of Broad Cove Inc., Aquabogue Cove Partners Inc. appeals, as 
limited by its brief, from so much of a judgment of the Supreme Court, Suffolk 
County (Lama, J.), dated December 18, 1992, as, after a hearing, declared a 
mortgage dated May 6, 1988, fraudulent as to the petitioner and set it aside 
"until the money judgment in favor of the petitioner and against respondent 
Broad Cove, Inc., entered October 17, 1989, in the original amount of 
$982,363.84 is fully satisfied".
 ORDERED that the judgment is affirmed insofar as appealed from, with costs.
 In March 1981 the petitioner BSL Development Corp. (hereinafter BSL) entered 
into a contract to purchase a parcel of undeveloped land on Long Island from the 
owner Broad Cove, Inc. (hereinafter Broad Cove).   The closing was scheduled for 
June 1981.   Stanley Weisz agreed to purchase all the shares of Broad Cove in 
August 1981, and the Stanley Weisz, P.C. Retirement Plan (hereinafter the Weisz 
Plan) subsequently advanced funds to Broad Cove and assumed certain of its 
obligations.   When the closing did not take place, BSL commenced two actions in 
1982 to recover damages for breach of contract against Broad Cove.  Judgment was 
entered in favor of Broad Cove in 1985 following a jury trial.   In February 
1987 *695 this court reversed the judgment in favor of Broad Cove, as a matter 
of law, on the issue of liability and remitted the matter for a new trial solely 
on the issue of damages (see, BSL Dev. Corp. v. Broad Cove, 127 A.D.2d 722, 512 
N.Y.S.2d 120).
 In 1988 Weisz obtained investors under the name Aquabogue Cove Partners, Inc.  
(hereinafter Aquabogue) to provide funds to Broad Cove.   On May 6, 1988, while 
the trial on damages was pending, Broad Cove conveyed a note and mortgage to 
Aquabogue in the amount of $9,652,440.   In May 1988 Aquabogue gave the Weisz 
Plan a promissory note in the amount of $8,000,000 and entered into an agreement 
in which it gave the Weisz Plan an ownership right in the Broad Cove mortgage to 
the extent of $8,000,000.   In May 1989 Aquabogue commenced an action to 
foreclose on the mortgage.   The following month, BSL brought this proceeding 
for a determination as to the rights of the parties in the property and alleged, 
inter alia, that the mortgage was a fraudulent conveyance as to it.   On October 
17, 1989, after a nonjury trial on damages in the action brought by BSL against 
Broad Cove, the court awarded BSL a judgment against Broad Cove in the amount of 
$982,363.84 (see, BSL Dev. Corp. v. Broad Cove, 178 A.D.2d 394, 577 N.Y.S.2d 
98).   In this proceeding, the court, after considering the evidence offered by 
the parties at a hearing and the papers submitted in connection with BSL's 
motion for summary judgment, granted judgment in BSL's favor and declared the 
mortgage conveyance void as to it. We now affirm.
 **255 [1][2] Pursuant to Debtor and Creditor Law §  273-a, a conveyance made 
without fair consideration by a defendant in an action for money damages "is 
fraudulent as to the plaintiff in that action without regard to the actual 
intent of the defendant if, after final judgment for the plaintiff, the 
defendant fails to satisfy the judgment".   Broad Cove clearly was a defendant 
in an action for money damages when the mortgage conveyance was made, as a trial 
on the issue of damages in the action brought by BSL against Broad Cove was 
pending in May 1988.   In addition, there is no dispute in the record that Broad 
Cove failed to satisfy the final judgment in BSL's favor. The remaining issue is 
whether the conveyance was based upon fair consideration.   We find that it was 
not.
 Fair consideration exists "[w]hen in exchange for such property, or obligation, 
as a fair equivalent therefor, and in good faith, property is conveyed or an 
antecedent debt is satisfied" or "[w]hen such property, or obligation is 
received in good faith to secure a present advance or antecedent debt in amount 
not disproportionately small as compared with the *696 value of the property, or 
obligation obtained" (Debtor and Creditor Law §  272; Furlong v. Storch, 132 
A.D.2d 866, 518 N.Y.S.2d 216).   Aquabogue contended that $8,000,000 of the face 
amount of the mortgage represented payment of an antecedent debt owed by Broad 
Cove to the Weisz Plan.   Aquabogue was formed for the purpose of the Broad Cove 
mortgage transaction, and, in April 1990 Stanley Weisz acquired 50 percent of 
the shares of Aquabogue.   We agree with the Supreme Court's finding that there 
was a lack of documentary evidence to support Aquabogue's claim that the 
antecedent debt to the Weisz Plan amounted to $8,000,000 (see, e.g., Century 21 
Constr. Corp. v. Rabolt, 143 A.D.2d 873, 533 N.Y.S.2d 528;  Community Nat. Bank 
& Trust Co. of N.Y. v. Statile, 94 A.D.2d 754, 462 N.Y.S.2d 693).   Aquabogue's 
evidence established that the funds it advanced to Broad Cove pursuant to the 
terms of the mortgage totalled only about $1,000,000.   The conveyance therefore 
was made without fair consideration and was fraudulent as to BSL within the 
meaning of Debtor and Creditor Law §  273-a.   The court properly directed the 
Clerk of Suffolk County to set the conveyance aside until BSL's money judgment 
against Broad Cove was satisfied (see, Debtor and Creditor Law §  278[1][a];  
Century 21 Constr. Corp. v. Rabolt, supra;  see also, Marine Midland Bank v. 
Murkoff, 120 A.D.2d 122, 130, 508 N.Y.S.2d 17).
 We have examined Aquabogue's remaining contentions and find them to be without 
merit.
623 N.Y.S.2d 253, 212 A.D.2d 694
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Supreme Court, Appellate Division, Second Department, New York.
In the Matter of BSL DEVELOPMENT CORP., Respondent,v.AQUABOGUE COVE PARTNERS, INC., Appellant.

Feb. 21, 1995.

 Mortgagee appealed from order of the Supreme Court, Suffolk County, Lama, J., declaring mortgage conveyance fraudulent and setting it aside until money judgment entered in favor of prospective purchaser and against mortgagor was fully satisfied.   The Supreme Court, Appellate Division, held that mortgage conveyance was made without fair consideration and was fraudulent as to prospective purchaser, and thus, conveyance was properly set aside until purchaser's money judgment against mortgagor was satisfied.
 Affirmed.

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Mortgage conveyance was made without fair consideration and was fraudulent as to prospective property purchaser, and thus, conveyance was properly set aside until purchaser's money judgment against mortgagor was satisfied; mortgagor was defendant in action for money damages for breaching sales contract when mortgage conveyance was made, mortgagor failed to satisfy final judgment in purchaser's favor, and mortgagee could not prove its claim that $8,000,000 of face amount of mortgage represented payment of antecedent debt owed by mortgagor to another lender.  McKinney's Debtor and Creditor Law § §  272, 273-a, 278, subd. 1, par. a.
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Conveyance made without fair consideration by defendant in action for money damages is fraudulent as to plaintiff in that action without regard to actual intent of defendant if, after final judgment for plaintiff, defendant fails to satisfy judgment.  McKinney's Debtor and Creditor Law §  273-a. **254 Kirschenbaum & Kirschenbaum, Garden City, NY (Samuel Kirschenbaum and Ira Levine, of counsel), for appellant.
 Anthony V. Labozzetta, New York City, for respondent.

 Before BRACKEN, J.P., and ROSENBLATT, O'BRIEN and ALTMAN, JJ.


 *694 MEMORANDUM BY THE COURT.
 In a proceeding pursuant to CPLR 5239 to determine the rights of the parties in the property of Broad Cove Inc., Aquabogue Cove Partners Inc. appeals, as limited by its brief, from so much of a judgment of the Supreme Court, Suffolk County (Lama, J.), dated December 18, 1992, as, after a hearing, declared a mortgage dated May 6, 1988, fraudulent as to the petitioner and set it aside "until the money judgment in favor of the petitioner and against respondent Broad Cove, Inc., entered October 17, 1989, in the original amount of $982,363.84 is fully satisfied".
 ORDERED that the judgment is affirmed insofar as appealed from, with costs.
 In March 1981 the petitioner BSL Development Corp. (hereinafter BSL) entered into a contract to purchase a parcel of undeveloped land on Long Island from the owner Broad Cove, Inc. (hereinafter Broad Cove).   The closing was scheduled for June 1981.   Stanley Weisz agreed to purchase all the shares of Broad Cove in August 1981, and the Stanley Weisz, P.C. Retirement Plan (hereinafter the Weisz Plan) subsequently advanced funds to Broad Cove and assumed certain of its obligations.   When the closing did not take place, BSL commenced two actions in 1982 to recover damages for breach of contract against Broad Cove.  Judgment was entered in favor of Broad Cove in 1985 following a jury trial.   In February 1987 *695 this court reversed the judgment in favor of Broad Cove, as a matter of law, on the issue of liability and remitted the matter for a new trial solely on the issue of damages (see, BSL Dev. Corp. v. Broad Cove, 127 A.D.2d 722, 512 N.Y.S.2d 120).
 In 1988 Weisz obtained investors under the name Aquabogue Cove Partners, Inc.  (hereinafter Aquabogue) to provide funds to Broad Cove.   On May 6, 1988, while the trial on damages was pending, Broad Cove conveyed a note and mortgage to Aquabogue in the amount of $9,652,440.   In May 1988 Aquabogue gave the Weisz Plan a promissory note in the amount of $8,000,000 and entered into an agreement in which it gave the Weisz Plan an ownership right in the Broad Cove mortgage to the extent of $8,000,000.   In May 1989 Aquabogue commenced an action to foreclose on the mortgage.   The following month, BSL brought this proceeding for a determination as to the rights of the parties in the property and alleged, inter alia, that the mortgage was a fraudulent conveyance as to it.   On October 17, 1989, after a nonjury trial on damages in the action brought by BSL against Broad Cove, the court awarded BSL a judgment against Broad Cove in the amount of $982,363.84 (see, BSL Dev. Corp. v. Broad Cove, 178 A.D.2d 394, 577 N.Y.S.2d 98).   In this proceeding, the court, after considering the evidence offered by the parties at a hearing and the papers submitted in connection with BSL's motion for summary judgment, granted judgment in BSL's favor and declared the mortgage conveyance void as to it. We now affirm.
 **255 [1][2] Pursuant to Debtor and Creditor Law §  273-a, a conveyance made without fair consideration by a defendant in an action for money damages "is fraudulent as to the plaintiff in that action without regard to the actual intent of the defendant if, after final judgment for the plaintiff, the defendant fails to satisfy the judgment".   Broad Cove clearly was a defendant in an action for money damages when the mortgage conveyance was made, as a trial on the issue of damages in the action brought by BSL against Broad Cove was pending in May 1988.   In addition, there is no dispute in the record that Broad Cove failed to satisfy the final judgment in BSL's favor. The remaining issue is whether the conveyance was based upon fair consideration.   We find that it was not.
 Fair consideration exists "[w]hen in exchange for such property, or obligation, as a fair equivalent therefor, and in good faith, property is conveyed or an antecedent debt is satisfied" or "[w]hen such property, or obligation is received in good faith to secure a present advance or antecedent debt in amount not disproportionately small as compared with the *696 value of the property, or obligation obtained" (Debtor and Creditor Law §  272; Furlong v. Storch, 132 A.D.2d 866, 518 N.Y.S.2d 216).   Aquabogue contended that $8,000,000 of the face amount of the mortgage represented payment of an antecedent debt owed by Broad Cove to the Weisz Plan.   Aquabogue was formed for the purpose of the Broad Cove mortgage transaction, and, in April 1990 Stanley Weisz acquired 50 percent of the shares of Aquabogue.   We agree with the Supreme Court's finding that there was a lack of documentary evidence to support Aquabogue's claim that the antecedent debt to the Weisz Plan amounted to $8,000,000 (see, e.g., Century 21 Constr. Corp. v. Rabolt, 143 A.D.2d 873, 533 N.Y.S.2d 528;  Community Nat. Bank & Trust Co. of N.Y. v. Statile, 94 A.D.2d 754, 462 N.Y.S.2d 693).   Aquabogue's evidence established that the funds it advanced to Broad Cove pursuant to the terms of the mortgage totalled only about $1,000,000.   The conveyance therefore was made without fair consideration and was fraudulent as to BSL within the meaning of Debtor and Creditor Law §  273-a.   The court properly directed the Clerk of Suffolk County to set the conveyance aside until BSL's money judgment against Broad Cove was satisfied (see, Debtor and Creditor Law §  278[1][a];  Century 21 Constr. Corp. v. Rabolt, supra;  see also, Marine Midland Bank v. Murkoff, 120 A.D.2d 122, 130, 508 N.Y.S.2d 17).
 We have examined Aquabogue's remaining contentions and find them to be without merit.
623 N.Y.S.2d 253, 212 A.D.2d 694
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