· 4/16/1986
Fernandez v. Suburban Coastal Corp.
Citations
- 489 So. 2d 70
- 11 Fla. L. Weekly 927
How courts have described this case
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- holding failure to bid resulted from agent’s failure to calendar sale date
- affirming order setting aside foreclosure sale where abstract company engaged to attend sale failed to docket it, resulting in mortgagee's non-attendance
- affirming order vacating judicial sale where the lender acted diligently to protect its interests by employing an abstract company to attend the sale, but the abstract company inadvertently failed to attend the sale
- stating “long standing rule that inadequacy of price alone is not sufficient to set aside a judicial sale” unless “inadequacy is gross and is shown to result from any mistake, accident, surprise, fraud, misconduct or irregularity”
- equity will prevent wrong result where foreclosure sale price grossly inadequate and results from mistake, accident, surprise, fraud, misconduct or irregularity
- property valued at $54,300 sold for $100
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Judges: Downey
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