Legal Opinion

Jordan v. Sayre

Supreme Court of Florida

Decided January 15, 1892PublishedCited by 30 opinions

Appeal from the Circuit Court for Duval county. STATEMENT. The appellees, Henry D. Sayre, Phillip Halle and his wife, Minnie Halle, on the 21st day of May, A. D., 1887, filed in the circuit court for Duval county, Florida, their amended bill against Loud wick War-rock, his wife Adalina D. Warrock and Manuel C. Jordan, to foreclose a mortgage.

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Appeal from the Circuit Court for Duval county. STATEMENT. The appellees, Henry D. Sayre, Phillip Halle and his wife, Minnie Halle, on the 21st day of May, A. D., 1887, filed in the circuit court for Duval county, Florida, their amended bill against Loud wick War-rock, his wife Adalina D. Warrock and Manuel C. Jordan, to foreclose a mortgage. The bill was filed on behalf of the wife, Minnie Halle, and it alleges substantially that: 1. On the 27th day of March, A. D., 1873, Loud-wick Warrock being indebted to one C. B. Benedict,, executed to Mm a promissory note for two thousand', dollars, due…

1Opinion of the Court

Mabby, J.:

The former proceedings on the part of Sayre to foreclose the mortgage executed by Warrock and wife to Benedict, and assigned to Sayre, were futile, and *111the sale thereunder did not pass any title to him. Jordan vs. Sayre, 24 Fla., 1; 3 South. Rep., 329.

Sayre first executed and delivered to Manuel C. Jordan, appellant, a warranty deed for the west fifty feet of the east eighty feet of lot six (6), in square seventy-one (71), according to Hart’s map, in the city of Jacksonville, Duval county, Florida, being the lot described in the Warrock mortgage, and then executed and delivered to…

2Cases cited18 opinions

  1. Robinson v. . RyanNew York Court of Appeals · 1862
  2. Lacey v. Davis & McFarrenMichigan Supreme Court · 1856
  3. Jordan v. SayreSupreme Court of Florida · 1888
  4. Middletown Savings Bank v. BacharachSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1879
  5. Purdy v. . HuntingtonNew York Court of Appeals · 1870

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3Cited by30 opinions

  1. Pasco v. HarleySupreme Court of Florida · 1917
  2. Quinn Plumbing Co. Inc. v. New Miami Shores Corp.Supreme Court of Florida · 1930
  3. Key West Wharf & Coal Co. v. PorterSupreme Court of Florida · 1912
  4. Lagger v. Mutual Union Loan & Building Ass'nIllinois Supreme Court · 1893
  5. United States v. Bernard E. Roessling, Etc.Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1960

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