Legal Opinion
Ivanhoe Building & Loan Assn. v. Orr
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided April 29, 1935No. 611PublishedCited by 72 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Roberts
In this case the question is whether a creditor of a bankrupt, who has recovered a portion of the debt owed him by foreclosure of a mortgage on property not owned by the bankrupt, may prove for the full amount of the debt, or only for the balance required to make him whole.
The owners of real estate in Newark, New Jersey, executed to the petitioner a bond in the penal sum of $23,000, conditioned for the payment of $11,500, secured by a mortgage on the land. The mortgagors subsequently conveyed the premises to the Eastern Sash and Door Company, which expressly assumed the mortgage debt. That…
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