Opinion

Levy v. Broadway-Carmen Building Corp.

  • 366 Ill. 279
  • 8 N.E.2d 671
Court
Illinois Supreme Court
Filed
Apr 16, 1937
Status
Published
Author
Shaw
On the bench
Farthing, Herrick, Orr, Stone, Shaw
Cited by
55 cases

It was the legislature's intention that mortgage "foreclosure sales be made only upon such terms and conditions as were approved by the courts.”

How later courts described this case

  • It was the legislature's intention that mortgage "foreclosure sales be made only upon such terms and conditions as were approved by the courts.”
  • With regard to mortgage foreclosure sales, “[sjales by masters are not sales in a legal sense[ J until they are confirmed.”
  • upholding an upset price using the “grossly inadequate” standard
  • adopting these standards for Illinois practice

Written by the judges who cited it.

The opinion

Stone and Shaw, JJ.,

specially concurring:

We agree with the result reached but not in all that is said in the opinion.

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