Case ID: mich_83/html/0365-01.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

William J. Gray, Trustee, etc., v. The Federal Bank of Canada et al.
    
      Mortgage—Foreclosure—Decree—Time of sale,
    
    A foreclosure bill was amended by adding new parties, and was again amended by correcting the name of one of the added parties by changing his sirname from Hamlin to Hammond, his real name. And it is held that a sale could not be decreed until one year after the filing of the last amendment, by which Hammond was made a party defendant; citing Canfield v. Shear, 49 Mich. 313; Burt v. Thomas, Id. 462.
    Appeal from Wayne. ' (Keilly, J.)
    Submitted on briefs November 14, 1890.
    Decided November 21, 1890.
    Bill to foreclose a mortgage. Defendants Federal Bank of Canada and Herbert C. Hammond appeal from final decree entered June 18, 1890, authorizing foreclosure sale at any time after November 11, 1890.
    Decree modified so as to allow a sale after the expiration of one year from the filing of the last amendment to the bill, by which Hammond was made a party.
    The facts are stated in the opinion.
    
      Robert T. Gray, for complainant.
    
      S. S. Babcoclc, for appellants.
    
      Dickinson, Thurber & Stevenson, for defendant Snyder.
    
      Boioen, Douglas & Whiting, for defendants Whyte and McMahen.
   Per Curiam.

A bill to foreclose a mortgage was filed November 11, 1889. Afterwards, and on Decémber 13, 1889, the bill was amended by adding new parties. Again, on April 15, 1890, the bill was amended, so as to correct a name of a party defendant, by changing the name from Hamlin to Hammond. A final decree was entered on June 18,' 1890, which authorized a foreclosure sale at any time after November 11, 1890. The Federal Bank of Canada and Herbert C. Hammond, who were made parties as subsequent incumbrancers, appeal, and insist that the decree is erroneous, in that it authorizes a sale in less than a year from the filing of the amended bill. How. Stat. § 6701.

The decree must be so modified as to authorize a sale after the expiration of the year from the filing of the last amendment, by which Hammond was made a party. Canfield v. Shear, 49 Mich. 313; Burt v. Thomas, Id. 462. A decree will be entered authorizing a sale after April 15, 1891, and the record remanded to the circuit court in chancery for the execution of the decree.

As the appeal was made in the interest of complainant as well as of appellants, who hold as tenants, no costs will be allowed to either party in this Court.