Severson v. Penski

Facts of Case

Reduced in its essence, this case involves a judgment creditor appealing from an order extending the time within which a judgment debtor could redeem real property sold *741by the sheriff at an execution sale.1

This case concerns the effect of the enactment by the 1981 Legislature of Laws of 1981, ch. 329, which amended numerous sections of the law relating to execution sales of real estate and the rights of judgment debtors in connection therewith. Section 6 of that enactment added an entirely new provision into the law which is now codified as RCW 6.24.145. It requires that every 2…