Case Name: JONATHAN GUTHRIE vs. JOHN A. SORRELL'S HEIRS
Court: Supreme Court of North Carolina
Jurisdiction: North Carolina
Decision Date: 1849-06
Citations: 6 Ired. Eq. 13
Docket Number: 
Parties: JONATHAN GUTHRIE vs. JOHN A. SORRELL’S HEIRS.
Judges: 
Reporter: North Carolina Reports
Volume: 41
Pages: 13–14

Head Matter:
JONATHAN GUTHRIE vs. JOHN A. SORRELL’S HEIRS.
In a bill to redeem a mortgage, the personal representative of the mortgagee is a necessary party.
Cause removed from the Court of Equity of Buncombe County, at the Fall Term 1845.
The case is sufficiently stated in the opinion delivered in this Court.
Guión and Craig, for the plaintiff.
J. II. Bryan and Ireclell, for the defendants,

Opinion:
Pearson, J.
This is a bill to redeem a tract of land, which is under mortgage. It was intended to present the very interesting question, whether one, who has taken a deed, absolute upon its face, but with the understanding that it is be a security for certain debts, to be liable to redemption, and who purchases the interest of the mortgagee at execution sale, at the instance of a creditor, not secured by the mortgage, takes an absolute estate, or merely acquires the right to add the amount of his bid to the debts secured by the mortgage l
This would have been a grave question, and one well worthy of consideration ; but we are not at liberty to entertain it, because the proper parties are not before us.
In a bill to redeem a mortgage, the personal representative of the mortgagee is a necessary party. He is the person entitled to receive the money, and must necessarily be a party in taking the account.
The bill must be dismissed for the want of a proper par ty, and, of course, without prejudice, but at the costs of the plaintiff. It has been pending six 3-ears, and it has been in this Court more than three years, awaiting the motion of the parlies.
Per Curiam.
Bill dismissed.