Opinion
Decided February 27, 1928.
Mortgages — Advertisement of foreclosure cannot be challenged after sale, when.
After property has been sold in a proceeding for foreclosure of a mortgage, it is too late for the owner thereof to object to the method of advertisement, where such owner was given 10 days in which to redeem the property before confirmation of the sale.
ERROR: Court of Appeals for Cuyahoga county.
Mr. O.D. Eshelman, for plaintiffs in error.
Messrs. Sanborn Nacey and Mr. Walter Smith, for defendants in error.
This cause comes into this court on a petition in error to the court of common pleas of Cuyahoga county. The error complained of is that the court, upon motion, confirmed a certain sale of real estate belonging to the plaintiff in error, Helen Schneider. It seems that a suit was brought to foreclose a mortgage on the property, that an order of sale was obtained, and the advertisement made, and that prior to the act complained of in this petition in error the property was sold, and so far as the record shows it was sold for cash, and we are informed in open court that there was a distribution of the money realized from the sale; that the first lienholder got his money and perhaps the second.
We are informed that objection was made to the confirmation of this sale by plaintiff in error on the ground that she would attempt to redeem the property, and that 10 days were given her in which to raise the money to do so. No money was forthcoming from her, nor has there been any tender in this or the lower court of any sum of money, so, on motion of the sheriff, the sale was confirmed, as already stated, and a deed ordered, distribution made, and balance of the money paid into court.
Now objection is made because of the advertisement. We do not deem it necessary to pass upon the validity of the rules of the common pleas court with respect to how the bidding should be conducted. The plaintiff in error cannot be injured in any way by the application of such rule whether the court did or did not have the power to make it.
The sale was apparently made for cash, and the property brought more than two-thirds of its appraised value, and everything seems to be regular in the record. No better purchaser having been produced, and the plaintiff in error not having redeemed before the confirmation, although given an opportunity, we cannot see that she has any reason to complain; nor are the errors alleged in the argument of this case of sufficient import to warrant the court in disturbing the judgment of the court below. It will therefore be affirmed.
Judgment affirmed.
LEVINE, J., concurs.
SULLIVAN, P.J., not participating.