USA v. Copeland
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JUDGMENT DECREE AND ORDER DIRECTING SALE OF MORTGAGED PROPERTY. Signed by Judge J. Phil Gilbert on 8/8/13. (bkl)
USA v. Copeland
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IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,
Plaintiff,
vs.
JAMIE LYNN COPELAND,
Defendant.
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Civil No. 13-cv-380-JPG-SCW
JUDGMENT DECREE AND ORDER
DIRECTING SALE OF MORTGAGED PROPERTY
This cause coming on to be heard upon the plaintiff's complaint, and an order of default
having been entered against the Defendant, Jamie Lynn Copeland, the Court finds:
1.
That it has jurisdiction of the parties to and subject matter of this suit. The
Defendant, having properly waived service and having failed to answer or otherwise enter any
appearance herein, although the time for answering having expired, is ordered defaulted.
2.
The United States of America, acting through the United States Department of
Agriculture, Rural Development (formerly Farmers Home Administration), made a loan to Jamie
Lynn Copeland, secured by a mortgage dated September 13, 2002, (Ex. A of the complaint), in
the total principal amount of $45,000.00. The mortgage was recorded on September 18, 2002, in
Mortgage Record Document No. 2002R7170, Marion County, Illinois. That loan is evidenced
by a promissory note dated September 13, 2002 (Ex. B of the complaint). Defendant, Jamie Lynn
Copeland, defaulted on the note. On April 8, 2013, the United States of America, acting through
the United States Department of Agriculture, Rural Development, issued a notice of acceleration
(Ex. C of the complaint). The property has been abandoned as set forth in the affidavit of
abandonment (Ex. D of the complaint) dated April 15, 2013.
3.
That the following is the name of a person that may have claimed an interest in
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the above described property, but who is foreclosed from asserting her claim, if any, because of
her default in this action: Jamie Lynn Copeland
4.
That by virtue of the mortgage and indebtedness thereby secured, the plaintiff,
United States of America, has a valid and subsisting lien as follows:
Common address: 528 Main Street, Walnut Hill, Illinois 62893
A part of the Southwest Quarter of the Southeast Quarter of Section 36, Township
1 North, Range 1 East of the Third Principal Meridian, Marion County, Illinois,
and more particularly described as commencing at a point 654 feet West of the
Southeast corner of said Southwest Quarter of the Southeast Quarter on the South
line thereof; thence North 464.05 feet to the centerline of the St. Louis to Mt.
Vernon Public Road; thence North 60 degrees 59 minutes and 22 seconds West
along said centerline for a distance of 268.44 feet to the point of beginning. From
said point of beginning, thence South 2 degrees 06 minutes and 25 seconds East
for a distance of 157.76 feet; thence, North 89 degrees 02 minutes and 55 seconds
West for a distance of 204.18 feet; thence North 02 degrees 06 minutes and 25
seconds West for a distance of 269.94 feet to the centerline of said St. Louis to
Mt. Vernon Public Road; thence South 60 degrees 59 minutes and 22 seconds
East for a distance of 238.16 feet to the point of beginning, containing in all one
acre, more or less.
Subject to all public and private roads and easements.
Permanent Real Estate Index Number: 14-36-000-053
5.
That by virtue of the mortgage and the indebtedness thereby secured, as alleged in
the Complaint, there is due the plaintiff, the United States of America, as follows:
(a)
For its own use and benefit for the costs of this suit and for:
U.S. Attorney's docket and recording fees ............
390.00
Title expenses .......................................................
$
300.00
TOTAL
(b)
$
$
690.00
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For the use and benefit of the plaintiff, holder of the note secured by the
mortgage aforesaid, but subject and subordinate to the lien for payment of
the items mentioned in subparagraph (a) of this paragraph:
Unpaid principal balance ......................................
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$45,140.33
Accrued interest at $8.1725 per day due and
unpaid as of July 30, 2013 ...................................
$ 7,798.40
Total amount due plaintiff as of July 30, 2013,
exclusive of foreclosure costs ...............................
$52,938.73
(c)
(d)
Under the terms of the mortgage, all such advances, costs and other fees,
expenses and disbursements are made a lien upon the mortgaged real
estate and the plaintiff is entitled to recover all such advances, costs,
expenses and disbursements, together with interest on all advances at the
rate provided in the mortgage, or, if no rate is provided therein, at the
statutory judgment rate, from the date on which such advances are made.
(e)
In order to protect the lien of the mortgage, it may or has become
necessary for plaintiff to pay taxes and assessments which have been or
may be levied upon the mortgaged real estate.
(f)
In order to protect and preserve the mortgaged real estate, it may also
become necessary for the plaintiff to make such repairs to the real estate as
may reasonably be deemed for the proper preservation thereof.
(g)
6.
In addition, the plaintiff may be compelled to advance various sums of
money in payment of costs, fees, expenses and disbursements incurred in
connection with the foreclosure, including, without limiting the generality
of the foregoing, filing fees, stenographer's fees, witness fees, costs of
publication, costs of procuring and preparing documentary evidence and
costs of procuring abstracts of title, certificates, foreclosure minutes and a
title insurance policy.
Under the terms of the mortgage, any money so paid or expended has or
will become an additional indebtedness secured by the mortgage and will
bear interest from the date such monies are advanced at the rate provided
in the mortgage, or, if no rate is provided, at the statutory judgment rate.
That Marion County, Illinois, has a valid lien on the above-described property for
tax for the year 2012, and the property will be sold subject to the interest of Marion County,
resulting from taxes, general or special, which are a valid lien against the above-described
property.
WHEREFORE, IT IS ORDERED, ADJUDGED, AND DECREED by this Court that
judgment is entered against Jamie Lynn Copeland, for $52,938.73, and unless the Defendant and
her assigns and successors in interest to the above-described property pay to the plaintiff, the
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United States of America, acting through the Farmers Home Administration, United States
Department of Agriculture, within three days from the date of this decree the sum of $52,938.73
with attorney's fees and court costs with lawful interest to be computed thereon from this date
until paid, the real estate described in paragraph 4 of this decree shall be sold at public sale to the
highest bidder for 10% at time of sale and balance within 72 hours, subject to taxes, general or
special, due and owing to Marion County, Illinois, by the United States Marshal for the Southern
District of Illinois at the front door of the Marion County Courthouse in the City of Salem,
Illinois.
IT IS FURTHER ORDERED, ADJUDGED, AND DECREED that judgment is entered
in favor of the United States and against Jamie Lynn Copeland. The real estate shall be sold free
and clear of any claimed lien of Jamie Lynn Copeland.
IT IS FURTHER ORDERED, ADJUDGED, AND DECREED that the United States
Marshal for the Southern District of Illinois give public notice of the time, place, and terms of
such sale, together with a description of the premises as referred to in paragraph 4 of this decree
to be sold, by previously publishing the same once each week for three (3) consecutive weeks as
provided by law in a secular newspaper of general publication in the State of Illinois, the first
publication to be not less than four weeks before the date of such sale; that said United States
Marshal may adjourn the sale so advertised by giving public notice by proclamation; that the
plaintiff or any of the parties to this cause may become the purchaser or purchasers at such sale;
that upon such sale being made, the United States Marshal shall execute and deliver to the
purchaser or purchasers a certificate of sale and that said certificate of purchase shall be freely
assignable by endorsement thereon.
This is a foreclosure of a mortgage of residential real estate.
The amount required to redeem shall consist of the total balance due as declared above
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plus interest thereon at the statutory rate hereunder and all additional costs and other expenses
allowed by the Court.
If the purchaser at the judicial sale of residential real estate is a mortgagor who is a party
to this proceeding or its nominee, and if the sale price is less than the amount required to redeem
specified in 735 ILCS § 5/15-1604, an owner of redemption has a special right to redeem for a
period ending 30 days after the date the sale is confirmed by paying the mortgagee the sale price
plus all additional costs and expenses incurred by the mortgagee set forth in the report of sale
and confirmed by this Court.
The above-described mortgaged real estate has been abandoned. Consequently, the
redemption period pursuant to 735 ILCS § 5/15-1603 shall end 30 days after entry of this
Judgment/Order pursuant to 735 ILCS § 5/15-1603(b)(4). The reinstatement period shall not
extend beyond the redemption period as shortened. 735 ILCS § 5/15-1603(b)(4).
IT IS FURTHER ORDERED, ADJUDGED, AND DECREED that out of the proceeds of
such sale the United States Marshal shall retain his disbursements and fees, and out of the
remainder of said proceeds he shall pay to the plaintiff $52,938.73, together with lawful interest
to be computed thereon to the date of this decree and any court costs of this action in its behalf.
Said United States Marshal shall take receipts from the respective parties from whom he may
make payments aforesaid and file the same together with his report of sale to this Court, and in
case said property shall sell for a sum more than sufficient to make the aforesaid payments, then
after making said payments he shall bring such surplus monies into Court without delay for
further distribution by order of this Court.
IT IS FURTHER ORDERED, ADJUDGED, AND DECREED from the date of entry of
this judgment of foreclosure through the 30th day after a foreclosure sale conducted pursuant to
this judgment is confirmed by this Court, the mortgagor shall be entitled to retain possession of
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the above-described real estate. After the 30th day said foreclosure sale is confirmed, the holder
of the certificate of sale shall be entitled to immediate possession of the real estate upon payment
of the sale purchase price, without notice to any party or further order of the Court. The
mortgagors shall peaceably surrender possession of said property to said certificate holder
immediately upon expiration of the said 30-day time period. In default of mortgagor so doing,
an order of ejectment shall issue.
IT IS FURTHER ORDERED, ADJUDGED, AND DECREED upon or after
confirmation of sale, the person who conducted the sale or the Court shall execute a deed to the
holder of the certificate of sale sufficient to convey title, which deed shall identify the Court and
the caption of the case in which judgment was entered authorizing issuance of the deed.
Signature and the recital in the deed of the title or authority of the person signing the deed as
grantor, of authority pursuant to this judgment, and of the giving of the notices required by
statute shall be sufficient proof of the facts recited and of such authority to execute the deed, but
such deed shall not be construed to contain any covenant on the part of the person executing it.
Delivery of the deed executed on the sale of the real estate, even if the purchaser or
holder of the certificate of sale is a party to the foreclosure, shall be sufficient to pass the title
thereto. Such conveyance shall be an entire bar of (i) all claims of parties to the foreclosure and
(ii) all claims of any non-record claimant who is given notice of the foreclosure as provided by
statute.
IT IS FURTHER ORDERED, ADJUDGED, AND DECREED that if the monies arising
from said sale shall be insufficient to pay sums due to plaintiff with interest as aforesaid after
deducting the costs as aforesaid, said United States Marshal shall specify the amount of said
deficiency in his report.
IT IS FURTHER ORDERED, ADJUDGED, AND DECREED that the Court hereby
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retains jurisdiction of the subject matter of this cause and the parties thereto for the purpose of
enforcing this decree and that said United States Marshal shall report his actions and doings in
the premises in this Court at the earliest possible time to which time this cause is hereby
continued.
DATED: August 8, 2013
s/J. Phil Gilbert
J. PHIL GILBERT
United States District Judge
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