Leavings v. Mills

How courts have described this case

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• concluding further that the note was not even a negotiable instrument
• party seeking to enforce note must show “unbroken chain of assignments” to the original mortgagee
• “whether SMS is the owner of the note is a separate question which does not affect whether it is the holder of the note.”
• “Since Mills has failed to show that he is either the owner or the holder of the note or of the trust deed, we hold that Mills has failed to establish his entitlement to summary judgment.”
• litigation challenging putative assignee’s authority to foreclose initiated in 1997
• litigation challenging putative assignee’s authority to foreclose initiated in 1997

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).