163 N.W. 571 | S.D. | 1917
This action was brought under the statute to determine adverse claims to real estate. The plaintiff claims that her intestate, C. B. Jensen, was-, at and prior to bis death, the owner in fee of the northwest quarter of Sec. 13-109-56, in- Kings-bury county, and asks that the heirs of said Jensen, deceased, be adjudged and decreed to be the owners in fee of said real estate, subject only to the rights of the -plaintiff as administrator of the estate of said deceased. The defendant Andrews -claims to be the owner in fee of said land by virtue of a sheriff’s deed issued upon a foreclosure sale under a mortgage given by one O’Hora, a remote grantor of plaintiff’s intestate, as mortgagor. No- question was raised by plaintiff as to the validity of said mortgage as a lien against said real estate, but plaintiff claims that the notice of mortgage sale was so. defective as to render void the said foreclosure sale. The -cause was tried before the court without a jury, and findings and judgment were in- favor of -plaintiff, and against the defendant Andrews, from which judgment, and an order denying a motion for new trial, said defendant has appealed.
It is the contention of appellant that the evidence is insufficient to support the findings and conclusions of law. It is conceded by respondent that the appellant has good title in fee to said land, unless such title is defective by reason of' infirmities in the notice of foreclosure sale. The said mortgage was foreclosed by ad
In the case of Fitzpatrick v. Fitzpatrick, 6 R. I. 64, 75 Am. Dec. 681, being a caise involving the similar -question of a notice of foreclosure sale failing to state the hour of the day at which said sale would be made, the court, among other things, said:
"'Such a -defect defeats the whole purpose of the notice, which, as we view it, is to bring together such a body of 'purchasers, as by -fair competition will insure, as far as this goes, a full price for the subject of sale.”
To the same effect are the decisions in the following cases: Trustees v. Snell, 19 Ill. 156, 68 Am. Dec. 586; Burr v. Borden, 61 Ill. 392; Bondurant v. Bondurant, 251 Ill. 324, 96 N. E. 306, Ann. Cas. 1914D, 18; Hayes v. Pace, 162 N. C. 288, 78 S. E. 290.
The object and purpose of specifying the time in a notice of public sale is to advise and secure the presence of persons who might desire to bid upon and purchase the property to be sold. The naming of the specific hour in a notice of public sale would have a tendency to secure a greater number of purchasers and bidders at such sale than a notice merely naming the day, as it might (be a great inconvenience to some intended or prospective bidders and purchasers to remain at the place of sale many hours of the day in uncertainty as to the time when such sale would take place. We are of the view that section 640 of our Code requires the specific 'hour of the day to be named.
We are of the view, and therefore hold, that the foreclosure sale in question was void and of no effect, and conveyed no title to the’ appellant by virtue thereof. We are also- of the view that no other, substantial defect appears in said notice of sale or foreclosure procedure.
Finding no error in the record, the judgment and order appealed from are affirmed.