STATE ex rel. COMMISSIONERS OF LAND OFFICE v. KEEN

STATE ex rel. COMMISSIONERS OF LAND OFFICE v. KEEN
1943 OK 16
138 P.2d 78
191 Okla. 697
Case Number: 31163
Decided: 01/12/1943
Supreme Court of Oklahoma

STATE ex rel. COMMISSIONERS OF LAND OFFICE
v.
KEEN, Dist. Judge

Syllabus

¶0 MANDAMUS--Writ to compel confirmation of sheriff's sale of real estate where sole reason for refusal to confirm was that deficiency judgment was not remitted.
Mandamus will lie to compel the trial court to confirm sale of real estate sold at sheriff's sale where no objections or exceptions to the sale had been filed and the trial court had found that the proceedings were regular and had been performed according to law, but refused to confirm the sale on the sole ground that the deficiency judgment be remitted or canceled.

Original proceedings in mandamus by the State on relation of the Commissioners of the Land Office against W. P. Keen, District Judge of Judicial District No. 12. Writ granted.

Edwin A. Ellinghausen and Campbell Hippen, both of Oklahoma City, for petitioner.

BAYLESS, J.

¶1 The State of Oklahoma on relation of the Commissioners of the Land Office have applied to this court to assume original jurisdiction in an original proceeding to consider its petition for a writ of mandamus directed to the Honorable W. P. Keen, District Judge of Judicial District No. 12, directing him to confirm sheriff's sales held in some 27 foreclosure proceedings pending in the district courts of the various counties of said judicial district. The court assumed original jurisdiction and directed the respondent to respond within five days, but no response has been filed.

¶2 This matter is governed by the decisions heretofore rendered by this court in the case of State ex rel. v. Keen, 185 Okla. 597, 95 P.2d 851, State ex rel. v. Keen, 187 Okla. 179, 102 P.2d 143, and Fisher v. Keen, 187 Okla. 5, 100 P.2d 859, and accordingly the petition for the writ is hereby granted.

¶3 The respondent is directed to confirm the sales specified in the petition filed herein and to take other steps to see that sheriff's deeds are executed and delivered and to take all other and further steps prescribed by law for the completion of the foreclosures involved. It is further ordered that the cost of this proceeding be taxed personally to the respondent. Judgment is hereby rendered against respondent, for which let execution issue. See State ex rel. v. Crum, 185 Okla. 462, 94 P.2d 231.

¶4 CORN, C. J., GIBSON, V. C. J., and RILEY, OSBORN, WELCH, HURST, DAVISON, and ARNOLD, JJ., concur.