Case ID: nj-eq_31/html/0460-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

John S. Nevius v. John V. Egbert and others.
    Leave granted to the owner of the equity of redemption of mortgaged premises to redeem, where the sale of the premises under foreclosure proceedings took place contrary to the sheriff’s assurance that it would be adjourned.
    Suit for foreclosure. Motion to set aside sheriff’s sale under Ji. fa. for sale of mortgaged premises.
    
      Mr. J. H. Jackson, for complainant
    
      Mr. G. Berry, for Hector Toulmin.
   The Chancellor.

Hector Toulmin, the owner of the equity of redemption of the mortgaged premises, makes application for an order setting aside the sheriff’s sale under the execution issued in this cause. The complainant bought the property at that sale. The ground on which the application is based is surprise. There is no room to doubt that Mr. Toulmin was surprised by the sale. He supposed that he had an assurance from the sheriff that the sale would not take place on the day-on which the property wTas sold, but would be adjourned, and he appears to have had good reason to believe so. It is to be remembered, however, that the sale was of his own property under decree of foreclosure. He alleges that he was able to save the property by buying it himself at the sale, and would have done so if he had supposed that the sale was to take place on the day when the- property was .sold. He ought now, under the circumstances, to have an •opportunity to redeem it, but he is entitled to nothing more.