St. Clair v. Beneficial Mortgage Co. (In Re St. Clair)

How courts have described this case

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• noting general rule that mortgagor who holds possession after foreclosure and sale is tenant at sufferance
• distinguishing Atlantic Business and holding that the automatic stay protects a possessory interest only when the “debtor-in-possession has a good-faith colorable claim to possession or control of the property”
• “Under New Jersey 14 law ‘[a] foreclosure action is purely quasi-in-rem, affording relief only against the secured 15 property.’”
• requiring a “good-faith, colorable claim to possession”

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