NationsBanc Mortgage Corp. v. Security Bank & Trust

OPINION

CRIPPEN, Judge.

Appellant disputes the trial court’s summary judgment that its judgment claim is defeated by a mortgage interest that was perfected at an earlier date. We affirm.

FACTS

In Hennepin County, in 1996, appellant obtained a judgment against Jacque Beth-ke that was docketed by the district court administrator. Appellant acknowledges that the judgment did not attach as a lien against Bethke’s homestead in Rogers, which Bethke had owned and occupied since 1993. Two months after the judgment was docketed, the home was mortgaged to respondent NationsBanc. In 1997, Bethke defaulted…