Boyd v. Goldstein

The appellants are displeased by the action below of the *257chancellor in refusing to grant them a decree in personam against the appellees for a deficiency shown after a sale of real estate under the power of sale contained in a deed of trust, because of default in the payment of a promissory note secured thereunder. The proceedings were instituted in the Circuit Court for Calvert County, and the motion for a decree in personam was requested under the provisions of Code (1957), Article 66, Section 15.1 This section refers explicitly to “mortgaged” property; however, under the previous decisions…