Schaefer v. Peoples Heritage Savings Bank

How courts have described this case

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

• affirming a mortgagee’s right to sever a joint tenancy upon foreclosure where one joint tenant neither executed nor authorized the issuance of a mortgage
• “When the mortgage is foreclosed, the joint tenancy is severed and the mortgagee becomes a tenant in common”
• “When the mortgage is discharged, the mortgagor will remain a joint tenant. When the mortgage is foreclosed, the joint tenancy is severed and the mortgagee becomes a tenant in common.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).