Bearden Plumbing & Hеating Company, a corporation, filed an action in the district court of Tulsa county, against Grant Johnson and wife, to foreclose a lien upоn certain real estate. W. E. Winn, doing business as Winn Lumber Company, also a lien claimant, intervened. After a long course, judgment was rendered, the propеrty was sold on execution, the sale was confirmed, a deed was executed by the sheriff, 'and a writ of assistance was issued.
Johnson’s wife then filed a motiоn to recall the writ of assistance, to vacate and set aside the order of sale, and to cancel the sheriff’s deed. This motion whs denied, and this аppeal followed.
The first thing to be noticed in the briefs is plaintiff’s motion to dismiss the appeal upon the ground that no service of the case-mаde was made upon the Bearden Company. A separate motion to the s’ame effect was filed and previously considered. We overruled the motion upon a showing by defendants, not controverted by plaintiff, that the Bearden Company’s judgment had been assigned to Winn, and from the record Winn was thе only interested ’ap-pellee. Appellee simply renews the motion in his brief without further showing or argument. Sections 531 and. 534, O. S. 1931 (12 Okla. St. Ann. 954 and 958), only require the servicе of the case-made upon the opposite or adverse party. It is specifically provided in the first section cited that no service shаll be made upon one who disclaims. This obviously would include on© who has transferred his entire interest. See City of Sapulpa v. Young,
The first assignment of error reads:
“That said real estate herein being appraised at $4,500 (C.-M. p. 27), a later ap-praisement in the sum of $1,650 and sale thereunder, without an order of court first setting asidе appraisement (C.-M. p. 36), whs unauthorized and absolutely void.”
The record shows that after the judgment had been rendered, and on April 25, 1931, the property was duly appraised at $4,500. The next thing appearing in the record is an appraisement under date of March 2, 1936, ’at a value of $2,750, less n mortgage of $1,100. The dеfendant argues that when property has been appraised for the purpose of execution sale, section 466, O. S. 1931 (12 Okla. St. Ann. 801), applies, and а reappraisal is not authorized without strict compliance therewith. A reading of our opinions and those of Kansas appear to cоnstrue this statute in keeping with defendant’s argument, that is to s'ay, the property, once appraised, must thereafter be offered for sale twice bеfore a reappraisal can be ordered. See Alexander v. American Nat. Bank,
In the Oklahoma ease it is ¿aid:
“* * * Said section presupposes a valid subsisting judgment, a valid execution, and a valid appraisement. * * *”
No complaint is madе of the Validity of the judgment, and no argument has been made that it was not proper to issue, the execution by virtue of which the first ap-praisement was made. The defendant does argue that the first 'appraisal was invalid because the property was mortgaged, and section 445, O. S. 1931 (12 Okla. St. Ann. 751), was not comрlied with. The mortgage is in evidence. The appraisement, is in evidence and it. shows .that the mort *588 gage lien w'as not taken into account in ike apрraisement. Therefore, it conclusively appeal’s that there was an invalid appraisement ns contended by defendant. lint, says the defendant, the court must first make an order adjudging the invalidity and ordering- a reappraisal, and that this record fails to disclose that this was done. Plaintiff asserts that defendant ’admits, or rather plеads, that this was done, and the omission is immaterial. It is true that in paragraph 3 of the motion the defendant says:
“* * * And on the 23d day of April, 1931, caused to be issued praecipe and order of s'ale: but the same was set aside by order of court upon motion or injunction of defendant’s counsel.”
But the defendant says in the succeeding paragraph:
“* * * That said appraisement still stands for the reason that no motion or other proceedings have been instituted to have the same set aside. * * *”
A consideration of the apparently contradictory pleas discloses that they are not in conflict. In No. 3 she was speaking of the issuance of an exeсution under improper cireumsfances, and set up that it was quashed. An appraisement was made under it which she asserts still stands. This cannot he, for a valid appraisement presupposes a Valid execution, and the execution was rightfully set aside, so the defendant says. If there was no valid subsisting execution, there was no valid ap-praisement. Therefore, when the second order of sale and execution was issued, there was no valid apрraisement in existence, and an appraisement was a neces-s'ary step. In the Kansas case it is suggested that where several years time has elapsed between the appraisement and the succeeding order of sale (as is in our case), it might be better for the court to order 'a reappraisement, if the circumstances justified.
The second assignment complains of the consideration for the assignment of the Bearden Comp'any’s judgment. This is not a matter of concern to defendant. She had not paid the judgment, and so long as it remained a valid charge against her 'and her land, shе has no control over nor complaint to make about the consideration passing for assignments thereof. This is elementary.
The third assignment of error reads:
‘‘That said purported sale is also void for the further reason that same was made without an accounting being first had with receiver of the property involved herein and that there was no way of ascertaining what equity рlaintiff in error then had in said property.”
The argument hereunder is bottomed upon the theory that 'an accounting by the receiver should have been hаd and the lien of the mortgage adjusted accordingly, ■whereby the equity of the defendant would have been disclosed to he greater than actually it wаs shown. We think it would be proper to adjust the equities in order that the appraisal would reflect the owner’s equity with reasonable certainty. An order сonfirming a sheriff’s sale is res judicata upon all matters presented by and pertaining to the order of sale or execution and the steps thereunder. Capital Bank of Topeka v. Huntoon,
However, a reading of the cases annotated under section 456, O. S. 1931, and 12 Okla. St. Ann. 765, notes 41-53, discloses that it is not mere irregularities which render the proсeeding voidable, but steps omitted or defectively performed which are deemed material to the jurisdiction of the court to proceed, which render the proceeding void that justify vacating an order of confirmation. See Morgan v. Stevens,
To have moved to quash, or to have objected to the confirmation on the ground of improper or defective appraisement, might have been sufiicient to justify an order accоrdingly. We do not think it should justify an order vacating unless prejudice is shown. None is shown here. The figure w'as set at $2,750, less $1,100. Actually it should have been $2,750 less $938.58, or a differencе of $1,811.42, and the bid of $1,200, or slightly less than two-thirds. But there were about $500 delinquent taxes, and these should have been taken into account. Guaranty Bank of Oklahoma City v. Galbreath,