Goldenson v. Lieberman
Goldenson v. Lieberman
Opinion of the Court
Action by appellant against appellees to foreclose a mortgage on real estate situate in Starke county, Indiana, which mortgage had been assigned to appellant by successive assignments from the original mortgagee, appellee Nellie V. Peters. Appellees Lieberman were made parties to answer as to their interests, were notified by publication, and did not appear. Appellees Nellie V. and Robert D. Peters were made parties because of their indorsements of the, notes and mortgage involved. Appellees Gardner were made parties because they appear to be the owners of the real estate mortgaged. The prior rights of appellee Aetna Life Insurance Company are conceded.
After issues by affirmative answers of appellees Gardner and Peters, which we do not need to set out, there was a trial resulting in special findings of fact and conclusions of law in favor of appellees, except appellee Robert D. Peters, with judgment accordingly, from which, after motion for a new trial was overruled,- this appeal.
It appears by the special findings of fact, so far as necessary to this decision, that: For a consideration, appellee Nellie V. Peters indorsed without recourse, to William G. Bosworth, three certain notes held by her and executed by appellee Emma Lieberman, the payment of said notes being at the time guaranteed by ap
Appellant contends that an entry of satisfaction of a mortgage by the mortgagee, after the debt secured thereby has been assigned, is void, citing Reeves v. Hayes (1884), 95 Ind. 521. But this authority -was prior to the recording act of 1877. See §§1148, 1149, Burns 1914, Acts 1899 p. 191, §§3, 4, since which time it has been held that unrecorded assignments are void as against subsequent innocent purchasers. Connecticut, etc., Ins. Co. v. Talbot (1888), 113 Ind. 373, 376, 14 N. E. 586, 3 Am. St. 655; Baugher v. Woollen (1897), 147 Ind. 308, 311, 45 N. E. 94; Artz v. Yeager (1903), 30 Ind. App. 677, 680, 66 N. E. 917.
Appellant next contends that the satisfaction of the mortgage by appellee Nellie V. Peters, without her husband joining, is void. We do not need to consider this contention, for by the same reasoning the assignment to appellant’s assignor would be void.
Appellant says that appellee Nellie V. Peters should be compelled to satisfy the mortgage made to her by appellees Gardner, and to pay back the $474.40 secured thereby to appellant. No issue of this kind is presented and no such relief sought. We do not pass on ’ the question.
Appellant complains that the trial court gave no attorney’s fees, or interest on the note, in the recovery allowed against appellee Robert D. Peters. ' The evidence is not in the record, and we are therefore unable to say that there should have been any amount included in the judgment for these items. We find no error. The judgment is affirmed.
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