Proceeding for the foreclosure of a mortgage on certain lands in Sheridan county, Nebraska, and South Dakota, and for the appointment of a receiver. The petition alleged the execution of a mortgage in the principal sum of $4,056.55, on February 27, 1933, by John and Maggie Campbell; that no part of said principal had been paid nor any interest except two payments aggregating $268.40; that the makers agreed to pay the taxes on the mortgaged property, but none of said taxes had ever been paid. The petition further alleged that both of the makers had died and that the defendant, Kenneth John Campbell, a son, was the sole owner of the property in question. Because of the facts alleged the plaintiff prayed for the appointment of a designated person as receiver and named certain other persons as bondsmen for the receiver and for the plaintiff. The summonses upon the defendant, Kenneth John Campbell, and wife, were served in Medina county, Texas. The defendants filed an “objection to jurisdiction,” a special appearance, which was by the trial court overruled and the said defendants allowed 30 days to plead; the defendants thereafter filed a demurrer which was overruled by the court on March 15, 1943. On that date, the plaintiff being present with counsel and the defendants being represented in court by counsel, the court, without objection by defendants, took up the matter of the appointment of a receiver. On such hearing the attorney for the defendants Campbell freely
The defendants rely upon four errors, to wit: (1) Lack of notice for appointment of a receiver; (2) Error in appointing a receiver for the South Dakota land; (3) Error in the approval of the receiver’s bond; (4) Insufficiency of evidence to support the appointment of a receiver.
The first point made is that the receiver was appointed without notice to defendants, and therefore such appointment is void. “The statute requiring the giving of notice of an application for a receiver is mandatory, and an appointment made without such notice, in the absence or without the consent of the party affected thereby, is invalid. See Code of Civil Procedure, sec. 274; Johnson v. Powers, 21 Neb. 292. But the requirements of the statute in regard to notice may be waived, and should be so regarded where the parties have appeared in court, and resisted the application for receiver on grounds other than the want of proper notice. The object of the statute relative to the giving of notice was to afford the parties interested an opportunity to resist the application, and where there has been a voluntary appearance without notice the purpose of the statute is accomplished, and the giving of the statutory notice is waived unless the want of notice is at the time urged as a reason why a receiver should not be appointed.” Farmers & Merchants Bank v. German Nat. Bank, 59 Neb. 229, 80 N. W. 820. See, also, Lackey v. Yekel, 113 Neb. 382, 203 N. W. 542; 45 Am. Jur. 80, sec. 88.
Although there was a total failure of any receivership notice herein, the defendants Campbell through their attorneys, without any objection for lack of such notice, submitted themselves to the court, participated in the hearing, objected to evidence (on other grounds), cross-examined a witness and called opposing counsel as a witness on defendants’ behalf. Nowhere in the record is there anything tend
The next contention of the defendants is that the court erred, in appointing a receiver because some- of the land is located in South Dakota. They claim that a Nebraska court cannot affect South Dakota land and that the attempt so to do invalidates the receivership. It is settled that a court of one state cannot directly affect real estate situated in another state. Fall v. Fall, 75 Neb. 104, 120, 106 N. W. 412, 113 N. W. 175, 121 Am. St. Rep. 767; Fall v. Eastin, 215 U. S. 1, 30 S. Ct. 3, 23 L. R. A. n. s. 924, 17 Ann. Cas. 853. It should be borne in mind that the mortgage in question covered land both in South Dakota and in Sheridan county, Nebraska. This is not a case, therefore, where the court, in a
In the case last cited the plaintiff had recovered a,judgment against the defendant with execution returned unsatisfied and caused the examination of defendant on supplementary proceedings. It developed that the defendant had an interest in land in the territory of Dakota, title to which land was in defendant’s wife and had never been in the name of the defendant. The trial judge denied the plaintiff’s request for the appointment of a receiver “solely on the ground that he had no jurisdiction to either make an order applying the said real-estate interest for the benefit of the plaintiff, or to appoint a receiver herein in reference thereto or in aid of the plaintiff’s rights.” On appeal the supreme court of Minnesota reversed the order of the district court, saying: “To reach, for that purpose, real estate lying out of the jurisdiction, the court of chancery could appoint a receiver, and compel the debtor to execute to him such conveyances as would be effectual to pass the real estate according to the law of the state or country where it was situated. (Citing cases.) This it could do by virtue, and in the exercise, of its jurisdiction over the person of the debtor, and it did not thereby assume any power over the real estate itself. * * * The judge ought, therefore, to have determined whether the interest claimed to have been disclosed
The district court in that case was reversed for doing what the defendants claim the court should have done in this case. We are not prepared to hold that the district court in this case, in the exercise of a reasonable discretion, could not have appointed a receiver only for the Nebraska land and refused to appoint him also for the South Dakota land; but we do hold that what the judge did do was proper. Thus far there is only a naked appointment of a receiver. Yet under the above authorities, and many others which are available, the court could and can, if the ends of justice require, make such other or additional orders, enforceable upon the defendants in personam, as will make the receivership effective. That the court has not made, and may never make, such additional orders does not deprive it of the power so to do.
In support of.the third assignment of error the defendants claim that the judge, and not the clerk, should approve the bonds and that in any event the clerk should have required justification of the sureties. While it is claimed that section 20-1084, Comp. St. 1929, makes, it the duty of the judge and not the clerk to approve such receivership bonds, as distinguished from merely approving the sureties, nevertheless, we express no opinion in regard thereto, nor to the question as to the justification of sureties, since the defendants did not raise any such question in the district court. It has been repeatedly held, at least against sureties, that a defect in, or even a total failure of, approval of judicial bonds does not invalidate them; that the requirement for approval is for the benefit of the parties affected and may be waived by them. State v. Paxton, 65 Neb. 110, 122 et seq., 90 N. W. 983; Holt County v. Scott, 53 Neb. 176, 73 N. W. 681; Paxton v. State, 59 Neb. 460, 81 N. W. 383, 80 Am. St. Rep. 689; Ann. 77 A. L. R. 1479. Thus, in the first case
In a case where similar contentions were made as herein this court said that such claims “should have been presented to the district court for its consideration. So far as appears from the record, appellants made no objection in the lower court either to the form of the order appointing the receiver, to the amount or conditions of his bond, or to the approval * * * . Having failed to present these questions to the lower court, they are not now in a position to urge them.” Robertson v. Ostrom, 1 Neb. (Unof.) 200, 95 N. W. 469. See, also, Lancaster County v. Graham, 120 Neb. 785, 235 N. W. 338; Weber v. Wiley, 111 Neb, 587, 197 N. W. 384; 3 Am. Jur. 25, sec. 246. In speaking of the failure of the clerk to require the justification of the sureties the defendants in their brief say: “If the court or judge had been presented the bonds in question he most certainly would have insisted upon this.” This statement of the defendants would seem to leave no doubt that if the question of approval of the bond had been presented to the district judge he would have passed on it. By failing to object to the approval of the bonds in the district court the defendants have waived the same and cannot now complain in this court.
With reference to the fourth assignment of error, the facts hereinbefore set forth, which were satisfactorily established at the hearing, together with the undisputed fact that the amount due under the mortgage was over $6,000; that no taxes at any time had been paid and only a small amount of interest; and that the reasonable value of the land was not to exceed $4,-500, leave no doubt that the security is probably insufficient to discharge the mortgage debt, and under the provisions, of section 20-1081, Comp. St. 1929, justify the appointment of a receiver. Ecklund v. Willis, 42 Neb. 737, 60 N. W. 1026; Waldron v. First Nat. Bank,
The judgment of the district court is right.
Affirmed.