Madison Properties, Inc., a Corporation v. United States

MERRILL, Circuit Judge:

Appellant seeks to redeem realty purchased by the United States at foreclosure sale following default on an F.H.A. insured mortgage. 1 The District Court ruled that federal law controls, but observed that there are no federal provisions establishing a right to redeem or procedures therefor. It recognized that it was the custom of the U. S. Marshal in the district to follow Washington state law, allowing redemption within a year after foreclosure sale, and that the sale in this case had referred to this custom. 2 It then ruled that the prescribed Washington procedures…