Case Name: John Hutchins et al. v. Franklin G. Wall et al.
Court: New York Superior Court
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1889-06-20
Citations: 24 N.Y. St. Rep. 821
Docket Number: 
Parties: John Hutchins et al. v. Franklin G. Wall et al.
Judges: 
Reporter: New York State Reporter
Volume: 24
Pages: 821–822

Head Matter:
John Hutchins et al. v. Franklin G. Wall et al.
(New York Superior Court,
General Term,
Filed June 20, 1889.)
Mortgage foreclosure—Rights op purchaser.
Where on foreclosure of a mortgage, judgment was taken by default, and plaintiff was allowed a sum paid by him as interest on a prior mortgage, although no demand was made therefor in the complaint, Held, that defendants could only have the judgment set aside so far as it concerns the allowance of interest paid on the prior mortgage, and the purchaser at the foreclosure sale cannot refuse to take title on that account.
Appeal by purchaser from order directing him to complete purchase.
Thomas Darlington {Samuel Jones, of counsel), forapp’lt; Leavitt & Keith {John B. Leavitt, of counsel), for resp’t.

Opinion:
Sedgwick, C. J.
The action was in foreclosure of mortgage upon real estate. The judgment was taken by default against all of the defendants. It appears from the record that the referee reported that the plaintiff had paid $507.50 as interest upon mortgages prior to the mortgage in action, and that the plaintiff was entitled to payment of the amount out of the proceeds of sale. This conclusion of the referee was made part of the judgment. The complaint had not alluded to this claim of the plaintiff, or made any demand for relief in regard to it. The purchaser objected below that he should not be compelled to take title, because the defaulting parties could successfully object to the judgment so far as it gave plaintiff judgment for anything not demanded in the complaint, and those parties would, after the purchaser had taken title, have the right to have the judgment, and sale under it, set aside. In my opinion the rights of the defaulting defendants would be to have the judgment set aside so far only as it was defective in giving judgment for the amount of interest paid upon the prior mortgages, if they had such right, which it .is not necessary to determine. This would not involve setting aside the sale. The order is affirmed with ten dollars costs.
Freedman, J., concurs.