Mackenzie v. Alster
New York Supreme Court
This action was brought for a specific performance of a contract of sale of real property. Plaintiff’s title to the premises was through a foreclosure of a mortgage therein, by advertisement. The mortgagor was not served with the notice, but died pending the proceedings, leaving a widow and one child. The widow was served with the notice. No administrator of decedent’s estate was appointed.
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This action was brought for a specific performance of a contract of sale of real property. Plaintiff’s title to the premises was through a foreclosure of a mortgage therein, by advertisement. The mortgagor was not served with the notice, but died pending the proceedings, leaving a widow and one child. The widow was served with the notice. No administrator of decedent’s estate was appointed. The defendant rejected the title because neither the mortgagor-or the personal representatives were served with the notice.
1Opinion of the CourtGilbert, J.
The question to be decided is whether the title tendered by the plaintiff is such as a court of equity ought to compel the defendant to accept. That title is derived from the foreclosure of a mortgage made by one *389Fitzpatrick, by virtue of the statute regulating the proceedings to foreclose mortgages by advertisement (R. S., 545). Fitzpatrick died while these proceedings were pending, intestate, and no administrator of his estate has been appointed, po notice of the foreclosure of the mortgage by a sale of the mortgaged premises was served upon Fitzpatrick. These principles are well settled.
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