A mortgagee holding legal title to choses in action represented by loan accounts and a mortgage is entitled to enforce the mortgage by proceedings for possession without proving beneficial ownership of the funds advanced. A bare assertion by a mortgagor that the mortgagee sourced funds as agent for an undisclosed third party, without evidentiary support, does not establish a triable issue sufficient to resist summary judgment.
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