Legal Opinion
Honeyman v. Jacobs
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided April 17, 1939No. 465PublishedCited by 55 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Hughes
This case, coming here on appeal from the state court, presents the question of the validity under the contract clause of the Federal Constitution of § 1083a of the Civil Practice Act of New York (Chapter 794 of the Laws of 1933) 1 under which the appellant, a mortgagee of real property, was denied a deficiency judgment in a foreclosure suit, where the state court found that the value of the property purchased by the mortgagee at the foreclosure sale was equal to the debt secured by the mortgage.
The mortgage was executed in February, 1928, that is, prior to the legislation in question, to…
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