Florance v. Johnson

How courts have described this case

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• a foreclosure action was not barred by laches since any delay in enforcing the mortgagee’s rights acted only to the benefit of the mortgagor by permitting the mortgagor to remain in her home
• “Any delay in enforcing the mortgagee’s rights acted only to her benefit in permitting her to remain in her home; plainly, there was no showing of a detriment or disadvantage to the defendant occasioned by that delay, which is indispens[a]ble to a finding of laches.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).