Heim v. Kirkland, 77-1285
Decision Date | 14 March 1978 |
Docket Number | No. 77-1285,77-1285 |
Citation | 356 So.2d 850 |
Parties | Roger G. HEIM, Trustee, Appellant, v. Thomas R. KIRKLAND, Trustee, Thomas R. Kirkland, Individually, and Gloria J. Kirkland, his wife, and Umatilla State Bank, a Florida Corporation, Appellees. |
Court | Florida District Court of Appeals |
Calvin J. Faucett, Orlando, for appellant.
Gerald S. Livingston, Orlando, for appellee-Thomas R. Kirkland.
Zebulon L. Osborne, Eustis, for appellee-Umatilla State Bank.
Appellant Roger C. Heim, trustee, takes this interlocutory appeal in an action to foreclose a mortgage from an order of the trial court striking appellant's prayer for a deficiency decree.
The mortgage and note in question contained a provision that the land described in the mortgage was to stand as the sole security with no further recourse against the maker-mortgagor. However, in his complaint appellant prayed for an accounting of the principal, interest, late charges, abstracting, taxes, expenses and costs due from the mortgagor, and for a deficiency decree should a deficiency result. Appellees moved to strike the portions of the prayer relative to the claim for taxes, costs, attorney's fees and any claim for a deficiency, based upon the provision of the note and mortgage designating the land as the sole security and precluding any further recourse against appellees. The trial court entered an order thereon, holding in pertinent part:
We fail to find any error in the order being reviewed. The mortgagor-maker covenanted that he would pay the taxes and other charges so that, as against the land, in the event of a default and foreclosure of the mortgage the mortgagee would be entitled to a judgment for the principal, interest, taxes, attorney's fees and...
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