19 Neb. 715 | Neb. | 1886
This case was before this court in 1883 and is reported in 14 Neb., 153. In that action it was stated, in substance, that on or about the 22d of September, 1879, Andrew Bevins purchased the premises in controversy, taking the, title thereto in the name of his wife Alice Bevins; that about the same time the defendants Bevins and wife applied to the plaintiff for a loan of six hundred dollars for the purpose of erecting a house on the land in question ; that it was agreed between the parties that they should have the sum required out of a note which Bevins then held for collection, the defendants Bevins and wife to secure said money by executing a mortgage on said premises due in one year from November 10th, 1879; that about the 10th of November, 1879, Bevins gave the plaintiff his note for $600, and agreed that the mortgage should be executed in a short time; that about the 24th of that month Bevins and wife did execute a mortgage on said premises to the plaintiff for the sum of $350, and reciting therein the payment of $250, and providing that the mortgage should not
But as the cancellation of the mortgage due in three years had been obtained under the promise of Bevins to execute a mortgage due in one year, the cancellation was set aside and the mortgage reinstated. An examination of the brief of Judge Wakeley, Bevins’s attorney, will show that to have been the sole question upon which the appeal was taken; although, as an incident, it was argued that the canceled mortgage could not be reinstated. The court, however, under the facts in .that case, held otherwise. While the action was pending in the supreme court Hendrix purchased the land in question with full notice of the plaintiff’s rights. After the mortgage as reinstated became due this action was brought to foreclose the same, and Bevins
2d. It is alleged on behalf of Hendrix that he is an innocent purchaser, because he purchased without notice of any claim under this mortgage, it having been canceled of record when he made the purchase. It is a sufficient answer to this objection to say that he purchased with full notice that an action was pending to subject the property to the satisfaction of the plaintiff’s claim. The particular form in which this satisfaction was to be obtained was not material if the property was to be sold for that purpose. That Hendrix had notice of this debt is unquestioned; and that it was a lien, or was sought to be made a lien, on the property is clearly established. Courts do not, where it can be avoided, sustain technical defenses - the effect of which will be to defeat rights, but endeavor as far as possible to administer the law in such a manner as to do justice between the parties.
JUDGMENT AFFIRMED.