Schafer v. Olson

132 N.W. 645, 50 N.D. 1, 1911 N.D. LEXIS 138
CourtNorth Dakota Supreme Court
DecidedOctober 2, 1911
StatusPublished
Cited by3 cases

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Schafer v. Olson, 132 N.W. 645, 50 N.D. 1, 1911 N.D. LEXIS 138 (N.D. 1911).

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(loss, -F.

This is an application to this court coming after appeal from the district court of Nelson comity that a supersedeas bond staying execution, issued under § 7212, Code of 1905, bo vacated, and that in lieu thereof a supersedeas bond be required under § 7209. In the district court plaintiff recovered a judgment for $4,197 and interest as a balance due plaintiff from defendant for certain lands sold by him to defendant. The action ivas brought to obtain said judgment, have it bé 'declared a vendor’s lien upon the land so sold, and that such lien be foreclosed. Following the relief sought in equity, the following judgment.was entered: “It is now' in conformity with the proceedings had in said action and on motion therein, ordered, adjudged, determined, and decreed, as follows: (1) That the said plaintiff do have and recover of and from the- said defendant, Pontus Olson, the stun of $4,197.20, being the principal amount sued for herein, and the additional sum of $330.52, interest thereon, and the further sum of $34.20, costs and disbursements of said action as taxed by the clerk, making a total judgment, in favor of said plaintiff and against the said defendant of $4,561.92. (2) That the plaintiff has a lien as vendor herein upon and against the lands described in the complaint in this action, for the security and satisfaction of the particular indebtedness existing between said plaintiff and the said defendant, Pontus Olson, and as hereinbe[3]*3fore adjudged to be due and payable and for which judgment lias been rendered herein, and the plaintiff’s said lien is hereby fully established and eoníinned for the full amount adjudged to be due to- him by reason of the aforesaid indebtedness, together with all of the accrued costs of sale as hereinbefore provided, (ffj That all and singular the lien premises mentioned in said complaint and hereinafter described, or so much thereof as may he sufficient to raise the amount so as aforesaid adjudged to be due the plaintiff: for principal debt, costs of this action and the costs of sale, be sold at public vendue to the highest bidder for cash at the front door of the courthouse in the city of Lakota, county of Nelson, the county in which said premises are situated, by or under the directions of the sheriff of said county or his deputy.” The judgment further proceeded as usual in such cases to direct the notice to be given, provide that the plaintiff may be a pure-baser at the sale, direct the execution and delivery of the certificate on sale being had, and that a deed issue thereon at the expiration of the period of redemption, that, the premises be sold as one tract, that the proceeds bo applied in payment of fees and thereafter upon the judgment, debt, and that the surplus money, if any remain from the sale after paying the debt and accrued costs, be paid into court, to abide further order, and describing particularly the land so licned and ordered sold to satisfy the lien debt, and accruing costs.

Thereafter the district judge, who ordered the entry of the judgment, approved a surety bond containing one provision for costs on appeal in the amount of $250 and a provision thereof under §§ 7212 and 7215, lievised Codes 11)05, providing that that portion of said undertaking in the sum of $1,000 against the commission of waste on said premises and for the use; and occupancy of the property covered by tbo lien pending- appeal should stay tbo execution of the judgment and decree as a supersedeas bond on appeal from said judgment to this court. To the approval of this bond had upon notice, plaintiff and respondent, Schafer, duly excepted, demanding that before the execution he stayed defendant furnish a suitable bond under § 7209, Code of 1905, to at least the amount, of the judgment appealed from, conditioned that said judgment or such portion thereof as ivas affirmed on appeal would be paid. The respondent’s request was denied, and tbe bend for wash and for use and occupancy of the premises held suffi[4]*4eient to stay the execution of the judgment. We are asked to vacate such order of approval.

Involved in the solution of the question presented are the following provisions of the Code of 1905, contained in §§ 7209, 7212, 7213, and 7215.

Section 7209 provides: “If the appeal is from a judgment directing the payment of money it shall not stay the execution of a judgment unless an undertaking is executed on the part of the appellant by at least two sureties to the effect that if the judgment appealed from or any part thereof is affirmed, the appellant will pay the amount directed to be paid by the judgment or the part of such amount as to which the judgment shall be affirmed, if it is affirmed only in part, and all damages which shall be awarded against the appellant on appeal.” Respondent urges that this judgment is one directing the payment of money and not to be stayed except the provisions of the above section be complied with.

Section 7212 is as follows: “If the judgment appealed from directs the sale or delivery of real property, except in actions for foreclosure of mortgages, the execution of the same shall not be stayed unless an undertaking is executed on the part of the appellant by at least two sureties in such sum as the court or presiding judge thereof shall direct, to the effect that during the possession of such property by the appellant he will not commit nor suffer to be committed any waste thereon, and that if the judgment is affirmed he will pay the value of the use and occupancy of the property from the time of the appeal until the delivery of possession thereof pursuant to the judgment.”

Section 7213: “To Stay Mortgage Sale. If the judgment appealed from directs the sale of mortgaged premises the execution thereof shall not bo stayed by the appeal unless an undertaking is executed on the part of appellant by at least two sureties conditioned for the payment of any deficiency as shall arise on said sale, not exceeding such sum as shall be fixed by the court or presiding judge thereof to be specified in the undertaking, and all costs and damages which may be awarded to the respondent on such appeal.”

Section 7215: “Other Judgments. If the judgment appealed from directs the doing of any particular act or thing and no express provision is mude by the statute in regard to the undertaking to be given on [5]*5appeal therefrom, the execution thereof shall not be stayed by the appeal therefrom unless an undertaking is entered into on the part of the appellant in such sum as the court or presiding judge thereof shall direct, and by at least two sureties to the effect that the appellant will pay all damages which the opposite party may have sustained, by not doing the particular thing or act directed to be done by the judgment appealed from, and to such further effect as such court or judge shall in discretion direct.”

The action is brought in equity to foreclose a lien existing by statute, which statute (§ 6281) is but declaratory of the vendor’s lien created by civil law and later adopted as an equitable principle and now enforced as a purely equitable action. While the distinctions between actions at law and suits in equity have been abolished by statute (Code, § 6767), yet the two distinct systems remain, and the lien existing in equity and as declared by statute remains with the remedy administered under equitable jurisdiction. 2 Warvelle, Vendors, 2d ed. chap. 27; Sykes v. First Nat. Bank, 2 S. D. 242, 49 N. W. 1058.

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