University of Illinois YMCA v. Seeber

How courts have described this case

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• vesting in party of legal title at same time as ownership of mortgage indebtedness secured by mortgage upon title results in merger in him and extinguishes debt
• “The doctrine of merger provides that when the same person who is bound to pay is also entitled to receive, there is an extinguishment of rights, such that the debtor and creditor become the same person and there can be no right to put in execution.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).