Passanisi v. Merit-McBride Realtors, Inc.

Opinion

SPARKS, J.

This case presents issues relating to the rights of trustors of a deed of trust when the secured realty is sold at a trustee’s sale and the beneficiary is the successful bidder. At issue is the right of the trustors to the satisfaction of an earlier judgment for attorney’s fees awarded to the beneficiary in an unsuccessful suit to enjoin the sale.

Following a trustee’s sale of real property to satisfy a debt owed by plaintiffs Gary and Judy Passanisi to defendants Merit-McBride Realtors, Inc., Jeannette Ceser, and Doris Betts (Merit-McBride), 1 the plaintiffs filed a motion to…