Ames v. Pardue

This is an appeal from a judgment of the trial court which set aside a mortgage foreclosure sale and restored the plaintiff's equity of redemption on the grounds that the land was offered for sale en masse rather than in parcels. The plaintiff-appellee, Mary Jane Gantt Pardue, is the mortgagor of the property concerned, and the appellants-defendants, Central Bank of Birmingham and John B. Ames, are respectively the mortgagee and the purchaser of the property at the foreclosure sale. We reverse and remand for reinstatement of the foreclosure sale.

Beginning in 1951, plaintiff J. Bruce Pardue, a…