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1 IN THE COURT OF APPEALS OF THE STATE OF NEW MEXICO
2 CITIMORTAGE, INC.,
3 Plaintiff-Appellee,
4 v. NO. 34,335
5 AARON JONES and JENNIFER JONES,
6 Defendants-Appellants.
7 APPEAL FROM THE DISTRICT COURT OF SAN JUAN COUNTY
8 Daylene A. Marsh, District Judge
9 Little, Bradley & Nesbitt, PA
10 Sandra A. Brown
11 Albuquerque, NM
12 Justin B. Breen
13 Albuquerque, NM
14 for Appellee
15 Vanessa L. Deniro
16 Albuquerque, NM
17 for Appellants
18 MEMORANDUM OPINION
19 GARCIA, Judge.
1 {1} Appellants are appealing from a district court order denying their motion to set
2 aside a foreclosure judgment. We issued a calendar notice proposing to affirm.
3 Appellants have responded with a memorandum in opposition. Plaintiff has filed a
4 memorandum in support. We affirm.
5 {2} Appellants continue to argue that Plaintiff (Citimortgage) did not have standing
6 to bring the foreclosure action, and therefore the foreclosure decree is invalid.
7 Appellants are correct that under recent cases decided by our Supreme Court and this
8 Court, an entity wishing to foreclose on a mortgage must establish that, at the time the
9 foreclosure action is filed, the entity had the right to enforce the promissory note
10 underlying the mortgage. See Bank of New York v. Romero, 2014-NMSC-007, ¶ 17,
11 320 P.3d 1; Deutsche Bank Nat’l Trust Co. v. Beneficial New Mexico Inc., 2014-
12 NMCA-090, ¶ 8, 335 P.3d 217.
13 {3} In this case, attached to Citimortgage’s July 2011complaint was a copy of the
14 original promissory note. [RP 1, 7] The note was indorsed by IWAYLOAN, LP. in an
15 allonge dated December 10, 2009. [RP 9] Also included was language identifying
16 Citimortgage as the payee. [RP 9] As our Supreme Court observed, this payee
17 designation makes the identified payee a “holder” of the note for purposes of
18 enforcement. Bank of New York, 2014-NMSC-007, ¶ 21.
19 {4} In its memorandum in opposition, Appellants continue to argue that a new note
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1 was executed in 2013, containing a blank indorsement. Citimortgage points out that
2 this would simply make the note bearer paper, which would still give it standing under
3 Romero because it was the holder of the note. [MIS 2-3] See id., ¶ 24. In addition, as
4 we stated above, Romero requires that a party establish the right to enforce the note
5 “at the time it filed suit.” Id. ¶ 17. Plaintiff’s complaint was filed in 2011, and the
6 documents attached to the complaint established standing under Romero.
7 {5} For the reasons set forth above, we affirm.
8 {6} IT IS SO ORDERED.
9 ________________________________
10 TIMOTHY L. GARCIA, Judge
11 WE CONCUR:
12 _______________________________
13 RODERICK T. KENNEDY, Judge
14 _______________________________
15 J. MILES HANISEE, Judge
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