May 25, 2010
A Montana Circuit Judge entered a preliminary injunction yesterday enjoining MERS, Recontrust, and Countrywide from undertaking any action to sell, encumber, or transfer the borrower’s property during the pendency of the borrower’s lawsuit challenging a non-judicial foreclosure. The Notice of Trustee’s Sale fraudulently represented that there was an “obligation owed to MERS” when there was never any such obligation, and there is no evidence of any lawful assignment of either the Note or the Deed of Trust from the original lender to anyone. None of the Defendants appeared for the hearing.
The borrower had previously obtained a Temporary Restraining Order which stopped the Trustee’s Sale. Yesterday’s ruling converted the TRO into a preliminary injunction for the duration of the litigation.
This is FDN’s second victory in Montana. The borrowers in both cases are represented by Jeff Barnes, Esq. (who personally appeared at the hearing yesterday and prepared the lawsuit, Motions, and legal memoranda), assisted by local Montana counsel Eric Hummel, Esq.
Jeff Barnes, Esq., www/ForeclosureDefenseNationwide.com
