Anderson v. White
District of Columbia Court of Appeals
Hearing on an appeal by the complainants from a decree of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, holding an equity term, sustaining a demurrer to and dismissing a bill to set aside a sale of real estate under a deed of trust.
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Hearing on an appeal by the complainants from a decree of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, holding an equity term, sustaining a demurrer to and dismissing a bill to set aside a sale of real estate under a deed of trust. The Court in its opinion stated the case as Follows: This is an appeal from a decree dismissing the complainants’ bill to set aside the sale of lot 13, in square 533, in the city of Washington, made by Wine and Rheem, trustees, to Leon Tobriner, December 29, 1892. The complainants are Mrs. Mary Anderson, her trustee, Lorenzo A. Bailey, and certain claimants of…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Shepard
■ Courts of equity are charged with no power of relief against the hardships and misfortunes which sometimes attend upon the prompt and rigid enforcement of debts and obligations which have matured in accordance with contracts whose validity is conceded. Deeds of trust to secure debts, with powers of sale upon short notice, which have been deliberately and fairly made, may, by being pushed to speedy sale immediately upon default, in times of unexpected depression, or even in ordinary times, cause properly to sell for less than could reasonably have been expected at their dates, and be…
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