House Mart, Inc. v. Giacalone

Motion by defendant Henry L. McCarthy, as Commissioner of Welfare of the City of New York, for an order directing the Referee to execute a deed to the purchaser at the foreclosure sale conveying the property subject to certain mortgages held by the said defendant or, in the alternative, setting aside the foreclosure sale.

The Welfare Department was named as a defendant in the action by reason of the fact that it held two mortgages on the property for advances made to the owners. These mortgages, aggregating some $3,500, were cut off by the judgment of foreclosure and sale entered herein which…