73 N.Y.S. 328 | N.Y. App. Div. | 1901
This action was brought to foreclose a mortgage upon premises-situate in the city of Hew York. The complaint was filed on December 6, 1900, ¿with a notice of the pendency of the action, and it appears from the affidavits that the action was brought upon -the. theory-that the defendants August Meyer and Annie Meyer were the owners of the equity of redemption in the mortgaged premises that, upon this assumption, an order to show cause why a receiver of the rents and profits of the mortgaged premises should not be appointed, together with the affidavits upon which the same was granted, was served upon said defendants, and upon their default a.
It is contended by the respondents that, notwithstanding the recital of this order that the motion to vacate the order appointing the receiver was denied, it in effect did vacate that order, although denying appellant’s motion, and granted one of the alternative
It is not disputed in the present case that Dora Miesel did not receive the notice for which the Code provides, even though it be conceded that she had information through her attorneys of the notice, which was served upon the other defendants in the action. Such information could in no measure affect her or her rights in the premises. Consequently, the court acquired no jurisdiction to make that order, as against her. Undoubtedly the court was authorized to make the order appointing a receiver, after she \vas made a party and received notice of the application; but such condition furnished no authority for the direction that the receiver pay over to the newly-appointed receiver the rents previously collected. There was no authority to withhold such rents from the owner of the equity of redemption; such rents belonged to her, and the. court should have directed their payment over to her. To this extent, therefore, the order is without authority, and should be reversed.
Nothing that appears in Forster v. Moore (73 Hun, 244) conflicts with this view. Therein the application of the moving party stated that it was-her wish to apply the rents upon a prior incumbrance,
It follows that the order, so far as appealed ’ from, should be reversed, with ten dollars costs and disbursements to the appellant, and the motion to discharge the receiver and for the payment of moneys collected by him to Dora Miesel under the order of December 28, 1900, be granted.
Tan Brunt, P. J., O’Brien, Ingraham and McLaughlin, JJ., concurred.
Order reversed, with ten dollars costs and disbursements, and motion granted.