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57 Ariz. 490

114 P.2d 910

Farrell v. West

Arizona Supreme Court

Decided July 7, 1941

Arizona Supreme Court · decided 1941-07-07

Relies on Provident Mutual Building-Loan Ass'n v. Schwertner

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Decided 1941-07-07

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ROSS, J.

¶1 Appellees Carl and Henry West in a motion for rehearing insist that, since they paid Pursley a balance on the mortgage, they became the equitable assignees thereof by subrogation and that being so the judgment should require the mortgagor Farrell to reimburse them as a condition to quieting his title to the land.

¶2 In an action to quiet title, the party invoking the court’s jurisdiction is required to do equity and, if it appears there is an unsatisfied balance due a defendant-mortgagee, or his assignee, the court will not quiet the title until and unless he pays off such mortgage lien, though it be barred by limitation. Provident Mutual Building-Loan Association v. Schwertner, 15 Ariz. 517, 140 Pac. 495.

¶3 As thus modified, the opinion stands.

¶4 The case is remanded, with instructions that the trial court hear evidence of the amount, if any, which should be added to the original mortgage debt and, if it should be determined that there is any balance due thereon, upon its payment by Farrell into court, judgment quieting his title to be rendered.

LOCKWOOD, C. J., and MoALISTER, J., concur.
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