Court Opinion

ID: 9686738
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-24 16:04:25.648458+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:18:21.824947
License: Public Domain

The following memorandum was filed June 26, 1958:
Per Curiam
{on motion for rehearing). Plaintiffs ask us to modify our mandate. They point out the fact that plaintiffs were in possession of the resort property from the time it was vacated by defendants until the present. Apparently they do not consider the value which they have derived from possession and operation of the property as a sufficient offset for expenditures which they assert they made for the purpose of maintaining the resort as a going business during the pendency of the action. Defendants concede that plaintiffs are entitled to their costs for necessary repairs and maintenance but assert that equity would require that plaintiffs *131aaccount for any income received in the operation of the resort. Since the facts to which the parties refer are not part of the present record, it is clear that they must be established on further hearing before the county court. We do not wish to prejudge the question of what adjustments in the terms of redemption will be necessary and equitable by reason of the benefits plaintiffs have derived from their possession of the property on the one hand and the expenses necessarily ■incurred by them with respect to the property while they were in possession on the other. The county court should proceed to determine what the relevant facts are and to provide among the terms of redemption in its judgment for such adjustment in this respect as will do equity. Therefore the mandate originally filed is hereby amended to read:
“In so far as the judgment decrees reformation of the land contract and dismisses the counterclaim, it is affirmed; in so far as it provides for terms of redemption and for foreclosure, it is reversed, and the cause is remanded with directions to enter judgment not inconsistent with the opinion originally filed herein and the memorandum filed on motion for rehearing.”