Sailer v. Mercer County’s Empirical Analysis

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1 district · 15 state decisions

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1. “consists in this, that the plaintiff in this action, Alvin Stevahn, had a valid and subsisting right of redemption, extended by a paramount statute of the United States, and necessarily recognized by the Courts of North Dakota, and by statute and decision in North Dakota, a mortgage upon real estate is only a lien for the payment of the debt and no title passes to the mortgagee by virtue of the mortgage, nor by virtue of the foreclosure sale, and the lien is extended to the end of the expiration of the period of redemption. For that reason as to any debtor having a valid right of redemption, which right is recognized by this honorable Court as existing in the plaintiff-appellant in this case, the Federal Land Bank of St. Paul and any of its successors could have no more than a lien, and could not have title.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Stevahn v. Meidinger

2. “The law does not provide that the county shall agree to convey a valid title in fee simple. It provides that the county shall agree to convey and that it shall convey only `all right, title, and interest of the county in and to such property.' * * *”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Kopplin v. Burleigh County