Hale v. Clauson
Hale v. Clauson
Opinion of the Court
The Supreme Court has power to set aside and vacate a sale of lands made under a judgment upon a foreclosure of a mortgage, or pursuant to any order of the court by an officer thereof, and to order a resale, although there be no fraud, and the sale is in all respects regular.
An application for relief against a judicial sale is addressed to the discretion of the court of original jurisdiction, and no appeal lies, to this court, from an order made in the exercise of such discretion. (Hazleton v. Wakeman, 3 How. Pr., 357; Wakeman v. Price, 3 Comst., 334; Buffalo Savings Bank, v. Reynolds, 33 N. Y., 160 ; Dows v. Congdon, 28 id., 122.) It follows that the same court has power to set aside judicial sales, made pursuant to its judgments, or orders for fraud or irregularity, and that orders vacating sales for such reasons are not re viewable here. (May v. May, 11 Paige, 201.) It is claimed, however, that other parties, strangers to the judgment, and not parties to the sale under it, have become the bona fide purchasers and grantees of the premises from the purchaser at the sheriff’s sale, and that, therefore, the case is taken out of the rule; and that the court had lost jurisdiction to interfere with the sale upon a summary application. If the court had jurisdiction of the parties interested in maintaining the sale it had the same power to do equity, and could as well protect and preserve the equitable rights of all upon a motion addressed to its legal discretion as could be done by a formal action on the equity side of the court. A purchaser at a sheriff’s sale, although a stranger to the judgment or decree, by his purchase submits himself to the jurisdiction of the court, in respect to the sale and purchase. (Cazet v. Hubbell, 36 N. Y., 677; May v. May, 11 Paige, 201.) All acquiring title from and under him take subject to the same jurisdiction. A conveyance to a bona fide purchaser may be a circumstance which will influence the court in the exercise of its discretion, but does not take away jurisdiction. A grantee takes the place of his grantor, and consents to the same jurisdiction, under and subject to which the title is held. He has notice of the source of his grantor’s
All concur.
Appeal dismissed.
Reference
- Full Case Name
- Erastus Hale v. Lity E. Clauson, and Esther M. Maxon
- Status
- Published