86 Md. 663 | Md. | 1898
delivered the opinion of the Court.
The appeal in this case was taken from an order of the Circuit Court of Baltimore City ratifying a sale made by a trustee appointed to sell the property mortgaged by the appellants to Charles Herbert Richardson, executor of Matilda
.1. Whether the appellants are entitled to except to the ratification of the sale ; and
2. Whether the decree was invalid because it was passed, at the instance of the appellees, without making the holders of the other two notes parties to the proceedings.
As to the first question, we are of the opinion that the appellants were entitled to file exceptions to the ratification of the sale. If, as contended by them, the decree was invalid because all the parties holding the notes secured by the mortgage were not made parties, the property might be sacrificed by reason of such defect in the proceedings which would necessarily affect them. If the petitioners were not entitled to a decree, as alleged in one of the exceptions, the mortgagors could certainly urge that objection to the ratification of the sale. So without further discussion of that branch of the case we will proceed to the consideration of the second, which is the important one.
There has been a number of decisions in this Court construing one or more of the sections of the Local Code above referred to, but this precise question has not been decided,
Order affirmed, costs to be paid by the appellants.