INB Trust No. 337 v. Veljanoski

BARTEAU, Judge.

INTRODUCTION

This appeal pits the ownership rights of a bona-fide purchaser for value at a sheriff’s sale against those of a judgment debt- or whose property was sold even though he paid what he was told by the court clerk was the full amount of the judgment before the sale.

Dimitri Veljanoski’s house was scheduled to be sold at a sheriff’s sale because he had not paid a default judgment entered against him in a contract dispute. Three days before the sale, Veljanoski paid to the court the amount of the judgment as represented to him by the deputy clerk of the Lake Superior Court…