Forcible Detainer Judgment Affirmed
January 15, 2013The court affirmed a judgment in a forcible detainer action awarding possession of a property purchased at a foreclosure sale to the buyer. The owners of a property defaulted on their promissory note, and the property was sold to FHLMC in foreclosure. FHLMC notified the former owners to vacate twice, the first in three and the second in ninety days, and eventually filed a petition for forcible detainer. After the former owners failed to object to FHLMC’s evidence or present any evidence of their own, FHLMC was awarded judgment. The former owners appealed arguing that the petition insufficiently identified the property and that the notice to vacate was insufficient. The court rejected both arguments, holding that the petition was sufficiently identified the property by including the address of the property and that the evidence of the notices to vacate was sufficient to support the judgment.
