Court Opinion

ID: 6640821
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-07-20 20:45:08.578068+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T15:59:14.145012
License: Public Domain

By the Court

Emaiett, O. J.
This is an appeal from an order, made in an action to foreclose a mortgage, directing the purchaser to be put in possession of the mortgaged premises, they having been previously sold, by decree of the Court, to satisfy the mortgage. The sale was was made on the 16th day of June, 1860. The order appealed from was obtained January 10, 1861. The Appellant was a Defendant in the action, and in possession under a conveyance from the mortgagor made prior to the commencement of suit. The Eespondent was the Plaintiff in said action, and the purchaser of the premises at the sale ordered by the Court.
The question here presented was before this Court in the cases of Bassett vs. Stone, 4 Minn. 298, and Heyward vs. *279Judd, id. 483. In tbe latter case it was elaborately argued and patiently considered, and, although its decision was not absolutely essential to the determination of that case, yet, for reasons given in the opinion then delivered, we stated the conclusions to which we arrived.
We there held that the act of March 10,1860, (Session Laws 1860, 275,) commonly called the Three Years’ Redemption Law,” applied to sales made, after its passage, by order of the Court, in actions to foreclose mortgages, whether the mortgages were executed before or after that law was enacted; and a re-examination of the question in the present case only serves to confirm us in this opinion.
The Act referred to expressly provides that the mortgagor, or any one claiming through or under him, shall be entitled to the possession, rents, use and profits of the real estate so sold, until the time of redemption [three years] expires; provided only that at the end of each year he pay the interest and taxes specified therein.
In this case, the sale having been made after the passage of this act, the Appellant, as the grantee of the mortgagor, was entitled to the possession during the first year after the sale in any event; and as he was not in default in any way at the time the order was made allowing to the purchaser a writ of possession, the order was improvidently made and must be reversed. The purchaser had no right to the possession until after default in paying interest and taxes, and as default could not be made before the end of the first year, the Court had no right to make such an order before that time expired.