Case ID: nj-eq_22/html/0572-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Ti-ie Chief Justice.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Smith, appellant, and Alton and others, respondents.
    Decree opened, sheriff’s sale set aside, and mortgagor let in to make defense, on the ground of surprise and sacrifice.
    
      Mr. Stone, for appellant.
   Ti-ie Chief Justice.

This was an appeal from the order of the Chancellor opening the decree to sell in a foreclosure case, setting aside the sheriff’s sale and letting the mortgagor in to make defence. We think this order was proper and equitable. The decree and sale were a surprise to the defendant, and the property has been greatly sacrificed,

Let the order appealed from be affirmed, with costs.

The whole court concurred.