Court Opinion

ID: 9857727
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-24 15:56:31.211489+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T09:44:26.948347
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VERNON R. PEDERSON, Surrogate Justice,
dissenting.
It is bothersome to me whenever this court’s decision in a case, or a cited precedent, is significantly supported by a statement that includes the phrase: “because of the public policy....” One such case was Brunsoman v. Scarlett, 465 N.W.2d 162 (N.D.1991). I did not agree with the majority in Brunsoman nor in Hughes v. State Farm Mutual Auto. Ins. Co., 236 N.W.2d 870, 887 (N.D.1975) and, for relatively like reasons, I feel obliged to dissent here. See also my dissent in Bauer v. Bauer, 356 N.W.2d 897, 900 (N.D.1984).
When the mortgage involved in a complex commercial financing arrangement is only incidental to the overall relationship, it appears immoral and unjust to allow a “statute of mercy” (§ 32-19-07, N.D.C.C.) to be used so unconscionably and mercilessly-