JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A. v. Claybridge Homeowners Association, Inc. v. Deborah M. Walton

On Petition to Transfer from the Indiana Court of Appeals, No. 29A02-1402-MF-65. -

RUSH, Chief Justice.

• Three years after a final judgment foreclosing Plaintiffs judgment lien—and six years after the suit began—a successor mortgagee moved to intervene to assert its interest in the ‘foreclosed property. We hold the trial court did not abuse its discretion in denying the motion to intervene as untimely because-Plaintiffs lis pendens notice, filed at the beginning of the suit, provided constructive notice of the suit. That notice was valid because it was based on an enforceable, unrecorded…