O'Hara v. Folwell
O'Hara v. Folwell
Opinion of the Court
The plaintiff appeals from the judgment dissolving her injunction restraining the executory proceedings sued out by the defendant J. N. Folwell on the mortgage note of $550, made by Joseph O’Hara, deceased.
The ground for the injunction is, there was no sufficient notice of the order of seizure and sale, nor notice of seizure; because at the time the said notices were served upon her, she had not yet qualified as natural tutrix, and as such administering the succession of Joseph O’Hara.
The notice of the granting of the order of seizure and sale was. served on ninth September, 1873, and the notice of seizure of the mortgaged property was served on thirteenth of said month. Plaintiff" was not confirmed as natural tutrix till fifteenth January, 1874.
The proceeding was on the mortgage note of Joseph O’Hara, deceased, and in order to make a valid sale of the mortgaged property,, the legal representative of his succession should have been made a. party to said proceeding. Notices served upon the plaintiff before she was confirmed as natural tutrix, and as such administering said succession, were not sufficient. The proceeding taken against her before her appointment was in no sense a proceeding had contradictorily with the succession of O’Hara, the mortgage debtor.
The defendant, Folwell, however, contends that the notices were sufficient, because subsequent to the mortgage O’Hara donated the
It is therefore ordered that the judgment appealed from be annulled,, and it is now ordered that the injunction herein be perpetuated, with costs of both courts. .
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