Uptown Federal Savings & Loan Ass'n v. Vasavid

Petitioner, Hung Kit Ng, is a contract purchaser of mortgaged property held in a land trust. He appeals from an order of the trial court which both denied his petition to vacate a foreclosure decree and sale, and confirmed the Sheriff’s report of sale of the mortgaged premises to a third-party purchaser. On appeal, petitioner contends that he was a necessary party to the foreclosure proceedings and that improper joinder permits him to vacate the foreclosure decree; that he was never properly joined because service to him by publication was ineffective for lack of due diligence to ascertain…