Severson v. Eide’s Empirical Analysis

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1 state decisions

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1. “If the situation were reversed and the rents amounted to more than the interest and taxes, we think there can be no doubt that defendants could be relieved from an apparent default by an application of the rents in payment of such interest and taxes, or as the situation is if defendants desired to hold their contract that they could reduce the amount to be paid in redemption by compelling plaintiff to account for and apply such rents to a reduction of the amount due. We can see no reason why plaintiff may not have the same right of set-off in his favor.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Beitelspacher v. Winther