28 Kan. 524 | Kan. | 1882
The opinion of the court was delivered by
The facts in this case are substantially as follows: In the year 1872, one G. P. Smith was the owner in fee simple of seventy acres in the south half of section 9, township 26, range 18, situate in Allen county. In that year he and his wife, Margaret C. Smith, mortgaged the premises to Henry Gay for a loan of money from the firm of Gilbert & Gay, of the state of Connecticut, who were the agents of Nicholas Leitzbach. After the maturity of the note, Leitzbach prosecuted an action for the.foreclosure of the mortgage and for a personal judgment against Smith, in the United States circuit court for the district of Kansas, and judgment was rendered in that court on June 11, 1878, against Smith for the sum of $3,938.75, and a decree was also entered for the sale of the mortgaged property to satisfy the judgment. The decree of the United States circuit court ordered the master of the court to advertise the mortgaged premises for sale in the Leavenworth Times, in the county of Leavenworth, for thirty days prior to the day of sale, and to sell the same at public auction at the east door of the court house in the city of Leavenworth, and report the proceedings to the court for confirmation. Afterward, the master advertised the lands’for sale in the Leavenworth Times, and on the 29th day of the publication .thereof he sold the premises to Leitzbach. , The master’s report to the
The judgment of the district court will be reversed, and the cause remanded, with direction to the court below to ■enter judgment in favor of plaintiff in error, decreeing- the alleged title of Jackman to be void.