Commonwealth v. Kapalka

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• noting that a mortgagee’s evasiveness with interested buyers, along with other circumstances, showed that he was acting in the interest of buying the property at his own price rather than the highest price competitive bidding could bring
• invalidating a sale where mortgagee chose to place the required legal notice in a newspaper which had a more limited circulation than five other local newspapers
• mortgagee who had purchased the mortgage for the purpose of foreclosing knew that two neighbors were interested in purchasing portions of the property and yet gave them no notice of the sale
• failure of the mortgage holder to notify interested neighbors of foreclosure sale made it apparent on the record that mortgage holder had acquired the mortgage with the intent to secure the property for himself at his own price
• “Such title gives the plaintiff a standing in court”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).