Carstens v. Eller
Carstens v. Eller
Opinion of the Court
This appeal is taken from an order confirming the sale of real estate made under a mortgage foreclosure. A decree was entered herein on July 30, 1892, which, on appeal, was affirmed at the January term, 1895. 45 Nebr.,
It is urged that the appraisal is too low, and that plaintiff is estopped to deny it. This argument is based upon the fact that the lots were appraised at a lower sum under the second appraisement than under the first, and that the first appraisement having been set aside as being too low with the assent of plaintiff, he is in no position now to assert that the lots were not valued too low under the last appraisement. The argument is novel, but is without substantial foundation. The record fails to show that the first appraisement was vacated on account of the low valuation of the lots, but rather that said appraisement was vacated because the defendant asked it and the plaintiff consented thereto. Moreover, it is not disclosed that the lots were of the same value when they were last appraised as when the first appraisement was made. The. defendant merely showed that the lots were
The next objection, that the second appraisement is invalid because made by the deputy sheriff, is without merit. Nebraska Loan & Building Ass’n v. Marshall, 51 Nebr., 534. It is, however, argued that by consenting to the sustaining of the motion to vacate the first appraisement, one of the objections thereto being that it was made by the deputy sheriff, the plaintiff is estopped from urging that the deputy sheriff could properly make the last appraisement. This claim is untenable, since the motion to set aside the first appraisement was predicated on more than one ground, and the order fails to disclose the ground on which the first appraisement was set aside.
Equally without merit is the third point made by the defendant, that the property should have been sold under the first appraisement, since the same had already been vacated on motion of defendant. Ordinarily, an officer can make only one appraisement of real estate until he has twice unsuccessfully offered the property for sale. Code of Civil Procedure, sec. 495; Burkett v. Clark, 46 Nebr., 466. But this rule does not obtain where an appraisement has been set aside by the court.
Another argument is that the published notice of sale was insufficient, because not in accord with the decree, in that the notice did not state that the lots would be offered separately, nor that the property was to be sold under foreclosure of mortgage. The decree provided that
The fifth objection is obviously barred upon a misapprehension of the record. It in no manner refers to the advertisement and sale in question, but relates to a prior advertisement under which the property was offered, although not sold for want of bidders.
It is also insisted that too long a time intervened between the date of the last appraisement and the first publication of the notice under which the lots were sold. The last appraisal was made January 29, 1896., and the property was advertised immediately thereafter. March 16, 1896, defendant moved to set aside the appraisement, which motion was not passed upon until April 27.. A new order of sale was issued July 27, published notice of the sale began on August 5, and the sale was held September 8. It is not disclosed in what manner defendant was prejudiced by the lapse of time between the appraisement and the advertisement under which the sale was made.
The sale is likewise assailed because there was no appraisal made under the last order of sale. The property had been offered for sale only once nnder the last appraisement. Hence no new appraisement was necessary. Burkett v. Clark, 46 Nebr., 466.
No reversible error is revealed by the record, and the order of confirmation is
Affirmed.
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- August Carstens v. James W. Eller
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