Citimortgage, Inc. v. Shannon S. Barabas a/k/a Shannon Sheets Barabas, ReCasa Financial Group, LLC, and Rick A. Sanders

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• holding that a party who has prevailed at the trial court “may defend the trial court’s ruling on any grounds, including grounds not raised at trial.”
• stating that the dictionary definitions of “nominee” “are consistent with an agency relationship”
• holding Citimort-gage had a property interest at stake under a mortgage instrument, that disposition of the foreclosure case would impair that interest, and that no current party was representing Citimortgage’s interest
• explaining how MERS sought to “ameliorate [the] evils”- of securitization of mortgages
• description of MERS in deed of trust , as both “nominee” and “mortgagee” is ambiguous
• MERS member banks appoint MERS as their agent for purposes of service of process in any foreclosure action

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).