Opinion ID: 1937450
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Heading: marketable record title

Text: Stedmans argued that NDCC 47-19.1-01 of the Marketable Record Title Act prevented eviction because the farm had belonged to the Gary Stedman family since 1920, more than 20 years. But, Stedmans' chain of title has not been unbroken in the last 20 years. Their chain of title was interrupted by the mortgage which they gave to the Federal Land Bank and which the Bank foreclosed by a judgment. Stedmans did not appeal that foreclosure judgment and we cannot review that judgment now. Stedman's reliance on NDCC 47-19.1-01 was misplaced. We affirm the judgment of eviction. ERICKSTAD, C.J., VANDE WALLE, J., and VERNON R. PEDERSON, Surrogate Justice, concur. VERNON R. PEDERSON, Surrogate Justice, sitting in place of LEVINE, J., disqualified. GIERKE, J., deemed himself disqualified subsequent to oral argument and did not participate in this decision.