29 Minn. 307 | Minn. | 1882
Lead Opinion
The plaintiff, March 31, 18T3, executed to defendant a mortgage upon real estate, with the usual power of sale, to secure a promissory note for $525. Several payments were made on this note. 'March 15,18T9, defendant foreclosed the mortgage under the power. In his notice of sale he claimed as due considerably more than was due by the terms of the note and mortgage, after deducting the pajunents. He bid in the premises at the sale at a sum equal to the amount so claimed and the costs of foreclosure. Plaintiff after-wards redeemed, paying the amount so bid, with interest and costs'. This action is brought to recover the excess of the amount bid at the sale over the amount actually due by the terms of the note and mortgage, with interest and costs of foreclosure, after deducting payments. The court below rendered judgment for plaintiff for such excess. Upon the facts found there is no way to account for the amount claimed by defendant in his notice of sale, except by assuming that he omitted to allow for any of the payments.
The defendant relies upon Bidwell v. Whitney, 4 Minn. 45, (76;) Culbertson v. Lennon, Id. 26, (51;) Taylor v. Burgess, 26 Minn. 547;
The ground of the decision in Bidwell v. Whitney, which the others followed, is stated more clearly than in that case in Banker v. Brent, 4 Minn 408, (521;) Bennett v. Healey, 6 Minn. 158, (240,) and Bailey v. Merritt, 7 Minn. 102, (159.) In the last two of these cases the amounts claimed in the notices, and produced by the foreclosure, were in excess of the terms of the mortgages, and it was held that action for such excess, as for money had and received, would lie.
In Spottswood v. Herrick, 22 Minn. 548, the sum claimed in the notice and produced by the sale was within the terms of the mortgage, but the mortgagee had made no allowance in the notice for payments which had been made. The plaintiff, having redeemed by paying the full amount bid, sued to recover the excess, and the action was sustained. That case is almost identical with this, and controls the decision in this.
The right to recover the excess wag not touched upon by the case of Dickerson v. Hayes, 26 Minn. 100. That case decides ,only that where the mortgagor, after a foreclosure under the power of sale, brings an action to set aside the foreclosure, or for leave to redeem
In this case the defendant has.received from plaintiff’s property more than was due him, and more than he had any pretext to claim, find the excess rightfully belongs to plaintiff.
Judgment affirmed.
Yanderburgh, J., by whom the cause was tried in the district court, took no part in the decision of this appeal.
Concurrence Opinion
I concur in the decision of this case, but not in what is said by way of distinguishing it from Dickerson v. Hayes, 26 Minn. 100. It seems to me that the two cases are in principle inconsistent with each other, and that the present case virtually overrules Dickerson v. Hayes.