Case Name: TAYLOR v. GROLL
Court: Michigan Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Michigan
Decision Date: 1939-06-05
Citations: 288 Mich. 590
Docket Number: Docket No. 27, Calendar No. 40,315
Parties: TAYLOR v. GROLL.
Judges: Butzel, C. J., and Bushnell, Chandler, and North, JJ., concurred with Wiest, J.
Reporter: Michigan Reports
Volume: 288
Pages: 590–595

Head Matter:
TAYLOR v. GROLL.
Vendos and Purchaser — Assignment op Vendee’s Interest — Assumption op Liability — Novation—Notice op Default.
In suit to foreclose land contract providing that on default vendor had the right to declare the contract void, retain all payments as stipulated rental, and take possession without notice to quit, plaintiff held, entitled to deficiency, if any, against vendee, although he had not received notice of default and had transferred his interest to an assignee over 9 years before suit was brought and vendor had accepted smaller payments from assignee than contract required for about a year before assignee stopped mailing any payment some 3 years before suit was commenced, the assignee had not assumed and agreed to make the payments, and a novation had not been effected so1 as to' release vendee and impose the obligation on his assignee.
Sharpe, Potter, and McAllister, JJ., dissenting in part.
Appeal from Gfenesee; Gradóla (Paul V.), J.
Submitted January 4, 1939.
(Docket No. 27, Calendar No. 40,315.)
Decided June 5, 1939.
Bill by Mark A. "Wilson, receiver for Union Industrial Trust & Savings Bank, a Michigan banking corporation, against Bernard J. Grroll and Elizabeth Nolan, executrix of the estate of John E. Nolan, deceased, to foreclose a land contract, for a deficiency decree and other relief. Herman Gr. Taylor, receiver, substituted for Mark A. "Wilson, receiver, as plaintiff. Decree for ■ plaintiff. Defendant Nolan appeals. Plaintiff and defendant Grroll cross-appeal.
Affirmed.
Millard & Roberts, for plaintiff.
Guy W. Selby, for defendant Groll.
Bishop & Church, for defendant Nolan.

Opinion:
Wiest, J.
The bill should not be dismissed.
The decree providing for foreclosure should stand, but with the modification that Bernard J. Groll, the vendee in the land contract, and not John E. Nolan, the assignee of the vendee, or, by reason of his death, his estate, is liable for deficiency, if any, upon sale.
There was no novation releasing the vendee from liability, nor was he released by failure of the vendor to notify him of default in payments by his assignee.
Nolan, the assignee of the vendee, did not in the assignment assume and agree to make the land contract payments, and as this case is heard here on stipulated facts without the testimony, and the agreed facts are silent as to any oral agreement to such effect, the estate of the assignee cannot be held liable for any deficiency.
The decree, so modified, is affirmed, with costs to defendant Nolan estate.
Butzel, C. J., and Bushnell, Chandler, and North, JJ., concurred with Wiest, J.