In re Rosenblum

By Judge James W. Haley, Jr.

The primary issue here for resolution involves a determination as to the duty of a trustee at a foreclosure sale, under a specific set of facts, to collect a sufficient sum to pay outstanding real estate taxes on the property. The question arises in a procedural posture in which the court, at the request of the Commissioner of Accounts, T. M. Moncure, Sr., Esq., issued a show cause order against the Trustee for failing to timely file an accounting of the sale.

Succinctly stated, those facts are as follows. Herbert Rosenblum was named trustee under a deed of trust…