Bowers v. Pearson

Supreme Court of Florida

Bowers v. Pearson

135 So. 562, 101 Fla. 714

CourtSupreme Court of Florida

DecidedMay 28, 1931

StatusPublished

Cited by2 cases

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Bowers v. Pearson, 135 So. 562, 101 Fla. 714 (Fla. 1931).

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Per Curiam.

Where a mortgage foreclosure suit is started, and a Us pendens filed, the Us pendens can only affect transfers and assignments which are made after the suit is started and after the lis pendens is filed. Baker v. Bartlett, 56 Am. St. Rep. 594; Wingfield v. Neall, 116 Am. St. Rep. 882. The decree of the U. S. Court referred to in the plea in this case was therefore not binding on the appellant as assignee of the mortgage, who never was miade a party, actually or constructively, in the U. S. Court suit, and whose assignment of mortgage antedated the filing of such suit. The assignment is directly shown not to have been made pendente lite altho unrecord *716 ed as required by statute, Section 5744, C. G. L., 3841 R. G. S., until after tbe U. S. Court suit was filed.

Tbe plea which was over-ruled by the Chancellor, whose order is appealed from in this case, undertook to set up as a defense to foreclosure by the assignee of the mortgage, an adverse adjudication by the U. S. Court which was not binding on the assignee altho her assignment was recorded after the suit was filed, because she was not a party to such suit and her rights could not have been legally determined by the decree made by the U. S. Court.

The plea based on the effect of the adjudication of the U. S. Court in no wise undertook to raise the question of the rights of appellant to foreclose her mortgage, under her unrecorded assignment, as against the appellee, as a trustee in bankruptcy for the bankrupt estate of the assignor. Whether the trustee in bankruptcy represents the creditors of the assignor of the mortgage and is entitled to the benefit of the statute against unrecorded mortgage assignments, as contended by appellants, is not presented by the plea which confines itself to reliance’ upon the adjudication of another court, which we hold was not binding on appellant.

The order over-ruling the plea to the bill of complaint is therefore affirmed.

Whitfield, P.J., and Terrell and Davis, J.J., concur. Buford, C.J., and Ellis and Brown, J.J., concur in the opinion and judgment.

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Per Curiam.

Where a mortgage foreclosure suit is started, and a Us pendens filed, the Us pendens can only affect transfers and assignments which are made after the suit is started and after the lis pendens is filed. Baker v. Bartlett, 56 Am. St. Rep. 594; Wingfield v. Neall, 116 Am. St. Rep. 882. The decree of the U. S. Court referred to in the plea in this case was therefore not binding on the appellant as assignee of the mortgage, who never was miade a party, actually or constructively, in the U. S. Court suit, and whose assignment of mortgage antedated the filing of such suit. The assignment is directly shown not to have been made pendente lite altho unrecord *716 ed as required by statute, Section 5744, C. G. L., 3841 R. G. S., until after tbe U. S. Court suit was filed.

Tbe plea which was over-ruled by the Chancellor, whose order is appealed from in this case, undertook to set up as a defense to foreclosure by the assignee of the mortgage, an adverse adjudication by the U. S. Court which was not binding on the assignee altho her assignment was recorded after the suit was filed, because she was not a party to such suit and her rights could not have been legally determined by the decree made by the U. S. Court.

The plea based on the effect of the adjudication of the U. S. Court in no wise undertook to raise the question of the rights of appellant to foreclose her mortgage, under her unrecorded assignment, as against the appellee, as a trustee in bankruptcy for the bankrupt estate of the assignor. Whether the trustee in bankruptcy represents the creditors of the assignor of the mortgage and is entitled to the benefit of the statute against unrecorded mortgage assignments, as contended by appellants, is not presented by the plea which confines itself to reliance’ upon the adjudication of another court, which we hold was not binding on appellant.

The order over-ruling the plea to the bill of complaint is therefore affirmed.

Whitfield, P.J., and Terrell and Davis, J.J., concur. Buford, C.J., and Ellis and Brown, J.J., concur in the opinion and judgment.

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