Where a mortgagee's duty of care in advertising property for sale is alleged to have been breached by misdescription, the question of whether the advertisement misled potential buyers and whether a corrected advertisement would have produced a different result are factual matters requiring expert evidence at trial and are not amenable to summary determination. An agent acting on behalf of a mortgagee exercising its power of sale may not be a proper defendant where the pleading does not disclose a separate cause of action against the agent.
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