Herr v. Sullivan
Herr v. Sullivan
Opinion of the Court
While the proceeding in error was pending in this case, plaintiffs in error filed a supplemental transcript, seeking to have reviewed the action of the court below in issuing a writ of assistance to enforce its decree, and put the purchaser at the sale made thereunder in possession of the property in controversy. We denied their motion to vacate the order granting the writ, with leave to renew the same upon final hearing. At the final hearing counsel for plaintiff in error failed to renew the motion and to further discuss the question. Regarding the issuance of the writ as of no importance, in view of the final disposition we made of the case, we omitted any mention of the matter in our former opinion, 25 Colo. 190. Counsel who now represents plaintiffs in error apprehends that the order granting the writ may be construed as an adjudication of whatever right they may have acquired to the possession of the mill property under and by virtue of the foreclosure of the Allis. & Company trust deed, which was had pending the action. And that this question may be set at rest, he asked that the motion to vacate the order granting the writ be further considered and the order vacated, and the writ of assistance, so far as the mill property is concerned, be recalled, unless it shall be held that the sale under the Allis & Company trust deed is absolutely void. This application was entertained, and on the 19th day of December, 1898, the original motion to vacate the order was sustained, and an order entered recalling the writ. Defendant in error now moves the court to vacate and set aside this order, which, upon more mature reflection, we think should be done. The facts disclosed by the supplemental record are in brief as follows :
After the entry of the final decree in the cause, Amos J. Rising, who by the decree was appointed trustee, duly advertised, and on November 16, 1896, offered for sale the real estate and property described in the decree, and.sold the same to Lincoln B. Livingston, who was the highest and best bidder. On November 21, he executed and delivered to Livingston his trustee’s deed conveying to him the elevator property,
It will be seen that the court below did not pass upon the question of the validity of the foreclosure of the Allis & Company trust deed, but expressly refrained from considering that question, and granted the writ of assistance solely upon the ground that the plaintiffs in error, by their conduct, were estopped from injecting that question into the case at that stage of the proceedings. It is obvious, therefore, that whatever right or title the Harmony Mills and Elevator Company acquired under and by virtue of such foreclosure is in no way affected by the granting of the writ of assistance.
By the record before us, the validity of the foreclosure of the trust deed in question is in no way presented, and we are unable, as counsel desire us to do, to express any opinion upon that subject. But with the understanding that the rights • of plaintiffs in error acquired under such sale are in no way affected thereby, we think under the circumstances disclosed, that the court below was justified in issuing the writ of assistance. Our former ruling, therefore, should be reversed, and the motion to vacate the order granting the writ denied, which is accordingly done.
Motion denied.
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