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17 Jones & S. 221

Barnes v. Decker

The Superior Court of New York City · decided 1883-05-09

Appeal by plaintiff from judgment ordered at special term, dismissing the complaint. The facts are as follows: There were two parcels of land in the city of New York, which may be called respectively A and B. Upon A there was a first mortgage and also a second mortgage, which second mortgage was also upon B. B was conveyed to the plaintiff, and was made by the conveyance subject to the mortgage upon it, it being recited that such mortgage rested in part upon other land.

Decided 1883-05-09

By the Court.—-Sedgwick, Ch. J.

¶1—[After stating the facts as above.]—At the time of the action for foreclosure, the plaintiff had no interest in the premises mortgaged. He was not an owner of any incumbrance upon the premises. Of course he had not any title to the second mortgage upon parcel A, and which was upon his land, parcel B. It may be supposed that upon his paying or tendering the amount of the second mortgage, he might acquire an interest in the mortgage, so far as it affected parcel A. This would have involved an affirmative act, from which he voluntarily refrained. He having no interest in the equity of redemption of parcel A. it was not required of the plaintiff in the foreclosure action to make the plaintiff here a defendant in that action, for the purpose of foreclosing such right of redemption as was connected with the second mortgage. On the other hand, this right of redemption was foreclosed, not simply because the former owner, Schwenke, who appeared upon the record to be the then present owner, was made a defendant, but because the real owner was the attorney for that plaintiff and would be by force of the record estopped from claiming that the owner of the mortgage was not foreclosed. There is, moreover, no proof that the plaintiff conspired with his attorney, who was the owner of the second mortgage, to make Schwenke a defendant, instead of the real owner, for the purpose of misleading the plaintiff, nor is there proof that he was misled thereby.

¶2As the relief demanded upon the trial was based upon the claim to a right to redeem, there is no necessity of inquiring if the plaintiff had, at any time, any other kind of relief.

¶3Judgment affirmed, with costs.

¶4O’Gorman and Ingraham, JJ., concur.

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