70 Mo. 497 | Mo. | 1879
The petition alleged, that on the 21st day of April 1862, William Bales and wife, by their mortgage-conveyed to Benjamin Perry, with power of sale, certain lots in Kansas City described therein, and afterwards conveyed the same lots, subject to the mortgage, to John S. Harris who on March loth, 1873, conveyed all his interest therein to Henry Tobener, president of the Union German Savings Bank, for the benefit of said bank ; that afterwards the said hank was adjudged bankrupt, and James C. Babbitt, duly appointed assignee of said bank, received from John K. Cravens, register in bankruptcy, a conveyance of all the right, title and interest of said bank in the said property; and at the request of the holder of the note secured by the mortgage from Bales, and an order of the district court for the western district of Missouri, on the 23rd of August, 1873, said Babbitt regularly sold said property, and the defendant, James Hurt, became the purchaser at the sum of $560, of lots 2 and 4 in block 8, conveyed by said mortgage ; that on the 18th day of December, 1869,
On motion, the court struck out that portion of the petition in relation to the Bales deed of trust. On the hearing, the tender of the $741 was admitted, and evidence of the tender of the deed was excluded. There was evidence showing the facts in regard to the old and new court house as alleged in the petition. The temporary injunction, so far as it restrained defendant from selling at the court house on Second and Main streets, was made perpetual, but was dissolved, so far as it prevented defendant from selling at the old court house, on Fourth and Main streets.
From the decree plaintiff.has appealed, and contends that the court having obtained jurisdiction on account of the attempted sale at a place not authorized by the deed of trust, should have proceeded to pass upon the set-off and tender pleaded, and determined the whole case presented by the petition. If the court erred in enjoining the sale at the new court house, if in other words, upon the facts disclosed in the petition, the trustee had a right to sell the property at the court house on Second and Main, streets, then the court had no jurisdiction of the case made by the petition, and the bill should have been dismissed. In Hambright v. Brockman, 59 Mo. 52, which seems to have been overlooked by counsel, this court distinctly held the contrary doctrine to that upon which the decree rendered by the court below was based, with respect to the proper place to sell the property under the deed of trust. That is .decisive of this case on that point. The court, therefore, properly struck out that portion of the petition relating to the Bales mortgage, and the debt secured by it, and the assignment to Napton of the claim against Hurt on his bid for lots 2 and 4. From the decree, defendants, nor either of them, but only the plaintiff appealed. The error