Damages Properly Pleaded Against Lender In Mortgage Escrow Suit, Borrower Argues

Mealey's (April 4, 2023, 2:44 PM EDT) -- SAN ANTONIO — A federal judge should deny a mortgage lender’s motion to dismiss in a lawsuit stemming from the lender’s conversion of a borrower’s loan to an escrow loan after the borrower failed to pay his property taxes because the borrower has sufficiently alleged independent damages in pleading his claims, the borrower argues in an opposition brief filed in Texas federal court....