Commerce Trust Co. v. Goumas
Commerce Trust Co. v. Goumas
Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Defendants C. B. Park, Geo. B. Strother, and Gus Kappas appeal from a judgment denying their petition and motion for an order to set aside that portion of a confirmation of. a sheriff’s sale of real property fixing the period of redemption at six months; to set aside the sheriff’s deed to the plaintiff; and to fix the period of redemption at eighteen months from December 28, 1915, the date of the sale, for defendant C. B. Park, and at the time provided by law for the junior mortgagees.
On November 11, 1915, the plaintiff obtained a judgment against the defendants decreeing foreclosure of a mortgage given by defendants James Goumas and Hariklia J. Goumas, his wife, to the plaintiff for $4,000 on the land in controversy. An answer was filed by the appellants in which they pleaded that the mortgage notes had been paid. The cause was set for
“That from and after said sale the said defendants James Goumas and Hariklia J. Goumas and C. B. Park, Geo. B. Strother and Gus Kappas be' and they are hereby forever foreclosed of and from all right, title, interest or claim therein or thereto, and that they and all persons claiming by, through or under them or any of them be and they are hereby enjoined and restrained from setting up or claiming any right, title or interest therein or thereto or to any part thereof.”
A special execution was issued on November 22, 1915. The sheriff’s notice of sale described the land as follows:
“All of the southwest fractional quarter (S. W. fr. Vi) of section six (6), township twelve (12) south, range twenty-two (22) east, except forty (40) acres off of the east side and five (5) acres off the north side of said fractional section.”
The notice stated that the sale would take place “at the south front door of the county courthouse in the City of Leavenworth, State of Kansas.” The land was sold to the plaintiff for $4,677.83, and the proceeds were distributed as directed by the judgment. The sale was confirmed on January 8, 1916, and on the. motion of the plaintiff, The period of redemption was then fixed at six months from the date of sale. Afterward, defendants C. B. Park, Geo. B. Strother, and Gus Kappas filed a motion to amend the order' of the court fixing the period of redemption, and alleged that they had no notice of the time when the motion for confirmation of the sale would be heard. That motion, on the motion of the plaintiff, was, on September 7, 1916, ordered withdrawn from the record. On January 11, 1917, defendants C. B. Park, George B. Strother, and Gus Kappas filed their petition in this action under section 7504 of the General Statutes of 1915, to modify the order fixing the period of redemption and alleged that fraud had been practiced by the plaintiff in obtaining the order. Summons was issued and served, and the plaintiff answered. Evidence was introduced by the petitioning defendants; a demurrer to that evidence was sustained; and the petition was denied. This appeal is from the order sustaining that demurrer and denying the petition.
*516 “All sales of lands or tenements under execution shall be held at the courthouse, in the county in which such lands and tenements are situated.”
The presumption is that the law was complied with and that the land was in Leavenworth county, Kansas. Section, township, and range were given; that section, township, and range were in Leavenworth county; the land could be identified; and after confirmation, it must be held that the description was sufficient.
The judgment is affirmed.
Reference
- Full Case Name
- Commerce Trust Company v. James Goumas (C. B. Park, Appellants.)
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- Syllabus
- SYLLABUS BY THE COURT. 1. Mortgage Foreclosure — Sale—Confirmation—No Showing of Fraud. There was no evidence to show that fraud was practiced by the plaintiff in procuring an order confirming a sale of real property and fixing the time for redemption at six months from the date of sale. 2. Same — Sale Notice Fixed the Place of Sale in County Where Land was Situated. A sheriff’s sale notice which fixes the place of sale of real property at the south front door of the courthouse in the city of Leavenworth, state of Kansas, and describes the property by section, township, and range, is sufficient, after confirmation, if that section, township, and range are found in Leavenworth county, Kansas.