Henderson v. Grammar
Synopsis
Binding not Supported by the Evidence.—The Court found that the defendant assigned certain certificates of purchase for State land with intent to defeat the plaintiffs mortgage security: held, that urider the circumstances of the case the finding was- not supported by the evidence.—[Reporter..]
Junior Mortgagees of Land Held by State Certificates of Purchase. The holder of State certificates of purchase for lands gave a mortgage of the lands to secure a debt, and subsequently assigned the certificates to his brother, and gave a second mortgage aá security for another loan. The second mortgage was recorded, hut the assignment and the first mortgage were not. The brother died, leaving heirs, and the first mortgage was subsequently foreclosed without making the heirs or legal representatives of John McTucker parties defendant, the mortgagee purchasing at the sale and taking the Sheriff’s deed, no redemption having been made. The heirs surrendered the certificates to the State, and received the patent: held, that the foreclosure and sale had the same effect upon the title as though the heirs had been parties to the foreclosure proceedings, and the heirs must seek their relief as junior mortgagees, or for expenditures in perfecting the title.—[Reporter.]
By the Court : We are of opinion that the finding by the Court below—that the assignments of the Certificates 1778 and 1779 to John McTucker, in his life-time, and of Certificate No. 744 to Mary McTucker Grammar since the death of said John, were made with intent to defeat plaintiff’s security—is not supported by the evidence, and the judgment must therefore be reversed for that reason.
It is apparent from the record, however, that Nathaniel McTucker having been the actual holder of the Certificate No. 744 at the time of the foreclosure of the plaintiff’s mortgage, and the assignments of the other certificates from Nathaniel to John McTucker not having been recorded, the foreclosure of the plaintiff’s mortgage and the sale thereunder had, under the statute, the same effect upon the title as though the heirs of John McTucker had been parties to the foreclosure proceedings. In this view the only relief which the defendants can have in this action, if any, must proceed upon their rights as junior mortgagees or for expenditures in perfecting the title; and in the present' condition of the answer; such relief cannot be had.
Judgment reversed and cause remanded. Remittitur forthwith.
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