Commonwealth Land Title Insurance Co. v. Pugh

VANDE WALLE, Chief Justice.

William C. Pugh appealed from a district court order dismissing, without prejudice, the mortgage foreclosure complaint of Commonwealth Land Title Insurance Company (Com monwealth) and Pugh’s counterclaim. We affirm.

From 1989 until 1994, Pugh owned and operated Sierra Title Company (Sierra), a Minnesota title insurance company, with its principal office in Edina, Minnesota. Commonwealth was Sierra’s underwriter. On January 28, 1994, Pugh executed a personal confession of judgment providing, in part:

“I do hereby consent to the entry of judgment against me in the…