Central Housing Inv. Corp. v. Federal Nat. Mortg. Ass'n

DE CONCINI, Justice.

The sole question on this appeal is whether evaporative house coolers placed on mortgaged property subsequent to the execution of the mortgage are subject to the mortgage on foreclosure.

The facts are undisputed, hence there is only a question of law to decide.

In 1947 the Del Webb Construction Company built 700 houses as a post-war housing project known as Pueblo Gardens, south of Tucson, Arizona. The construction company built the houses but the ownership of the land and the improvements was in other corporations owned by the Del Webb interests. The construction was…