Dodge v. Freedman's Savings & Trust Co.
Dodge v. Freedman's Savings & Trust Co.
106 U.S. 445; 1 S. Ct. 335; 27 L. Ed. 206; 1882 U.S. LEXIS 1561; 16 Otto 445
(United States Reports)
Cases that cite this one
7 later published cases cite this decision.
- Frederick Wayne Thomas v. Nathan A. Rice, Warden, and the Attorney General of the State of North Carolina (4th Cir. 1987)
- American Trust Co. v. Butler (5th Cir. 1931)
- Hammer v. Alaska-Ebner Gold Mines Co. (United States District Court for the District of Alaska 1919)
- Shepherd v. Pepper (Supreme Court of the United States 1890)
- Young v. Vail (N.M. 1924)
- United States v. Thomas (Court of Customs and Patent Appeals 1912)
- Ford v. Springer Land Ass'n (N.M. 1895)
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Opinion
delivered the opinion of the court.
Section 808 of the Revised Statutes relating to the District of Columbia is as follows: —
“ Sect. 808. The proceeding to enforce any lien shall be by bill or petition in equity, and the decree, besides subjecting the thing upon which the lien has attached to the satisfaction of the plaintiffs demand against the defendant, shall adjudge that the plaintiff recover his demand against the defendant, arid that he may have execution thereof as at law.”
This statute applies to suits for the foreclosure of deeds of trust in the nature of mortgages to secure the payment of money, and authorizes a. decree in favor of the plaintiff against the debtor • defendant for the payment of the balance of the debt that may remain due after the application thereto of the proceeds of the sale of the trust property, and an order for execution thereof as at law. This is such a decree in such a suit,' and it is consequently
Affirmed.
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