James v. Chapman

Burgess, District Judge.

In 1928 Anna D. James gave Clyde Chapman and Mary E. Chapman a real estate mortgage containing a power of sale authorizing the mortgagees, in the event of default, to foreclose the same and to sell the property “according to the statute in such case made and provided now or hereinafter in force and in the manner therein prescribed.” The statute then in force required publication of notice of sale for six weeks upon foreclosure by virtue of such a power. Section 4629, Wyo. C. S. 1920.

On September 1, 1931, an act known as Chapter 73 of the Session Laws of 1931 went into…