Parsons Building & Loan Ass'n v. Dennis
Parsons Building & Loan Ass'n v. Dennis
Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
This is an appeal from a judgment confirming a sale in an action to foreclose a mortgage on real property and fixing the period of redemption at six months instead of eighteen months.
Plaintiff brought an action to foreclose a mortgage for $5,000 executed by Harlan A. Dennis and Pauline Frances Dennis, his wife. The petition alleged, among other usual allegations, that the note and mortgage were executed by defendants for the purchase price of the real property described; that less than one-third of the purchase price was paid, and that by reason thereof the period of redemption should be fixed at six months. Defendants were personally served with summons, but did not answer or otherwise plead. O. E. McAnulty, who was made a party defendant, answered,- and by cross petition set up and sought to foreclose a second mortgage for $1,500 given at the same time the first mortgage was given, and which was in default. The action came on for trial. The defendants, Dennis and wife, being in default, the court heard the evidence, found there was due plaintiff $5,065.30, and the defendant,
By this witness and others defendants sought to show, in an indirect way, that the purchase price of the property was less than $9,000, and that the down payment was more than one-third of the purchase price, and also to show that at the time the foreclosure action was brought payments had been made on the mortgages foreclosed, which, together with the down payment, amounted to more than one-third of the purchase price of the property. Substantially all of this offered evidence was excluded.
On this appeal appellants complain of the exclusion of that evidence. There was no error in the ruling. Appellants argue this as though they were retrying the question determined by the court at the time the judgment of foreclosure was taken for the amount due on the mortgages, and retrying the question heard by the court at
There is really nothing else in this appeal, and the judgment of the court below is affirmed.
Reference
- Full Case Name
- The Parsons Building & Loan Association v. Harlan A. Dennis and Pauline Frances Dennis, (O. E. McAnulty, Appellee)
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- Status
- Published