Reserve Loan Life Insurance v. Witt

250 N.W. 301, 264 Mich. 536, 1933 Mich. LEXIS 1057

• Court: Michigan Supreme Court
• Decided: October 2, 1933
• Docket: Calendar 37,167
• Status: Published

Opinion

Wiest, J.

The question in this case is whether we should direct the circuit court, in a foreclosure of an ordinary real estate mortgage containing no assignment of rents and profits under Act No. 228, Pub. Acts 1925 (3 Comp. Laws 1929, §§ 13498, 13499), and upon which premises there is a second and trust mortgage containing an assignment of rents and profits under the mentioned act, and operative by default and notice as required by that act, to appoint a receiver to collect the rents and profits and apply the same in payment of delinquent taxes and to redeem, under notice, from a tax title.

The court below refused to appoint a receiver. Both mortgages were executed in March, 1928. The trustee under the second mortgage is collecting the rents and profits from the premises and not applying any part thereof in payment of the delinquent taxes or to redeem from the tax title.

Plaintiff cites Nusbaum v. Shapero, 249 Mich. 252. That case involved no second and trust mortgage. The second mortgagee is exercising contract security rig’hts sanctioned by statute, and the first mortgagee may not, without such a contract, he accorded the priority it seeks. If the first mortgage is in the usual form, the mortgagee may pay the tax, redeem from the tax title, and add the sum so paid to the amount due. In the second mortgage, rights of the mortgagor not within reach of any provision of the first mortgage were surrendered.

Affirmed, with costs against plaintiff.

McDonald, C. J., and Potter, Sharpe, North, and Fead, JJ., concurred. Butzel, J., did not sit. Clark, J., took no part in this decision.