BAY REALTY CORPORATION, (FORMERLY RAND REALTY CORPORATION) APPELLANT,
v.
MORRIS BECKER AND GERALD BECKER, APPELLEES

Fla. 3d DCA | 1963-10-22
No. 63-18
Before HORTON, TILLMAN PEARSON, and HENDRY, JJ.
157 So. 2d 91 Florida District Court of Appeal, Third District (1963) Caution
Cited by 7 cases

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Synopsis

Bay Realty Corporation appeals from an order confirming a receiver's accounts and directing delivery of funds and assets to mortgagees in a mortgage foreclosure action. The court addresses what items constitute 'rents, issues and profits' pledged under the mortgage and subject to the receiver's control.


Holding

The court affirmed that most disputed items (city ledger accounts, house bank, fire loss claims, parking lot security, and liquor stock) were properly included as assets subject to the pledge. However, the court reversed as to the telephone security deposit and workmen's compensation insurance premium deposits, finding these did not constitute 'rents, issues and profits.' The court remanded for reconsideration of security deposits collected from lessees, to determine whether they were collected before or after mortgage default.


Key Quotes

“"Rents, issues and profits" has a well understood meaning and refers to rents collected by the party in possession or the net profits accruing to him from said property.”

Establishes the legal definition of what constitutes rents, issues and profits subject to a mortgage pledge

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Facts & Procedural History

Bay Realty Corporation held a junior mortgage on two Miami hotel properties with a receivership clause pledging rents, issues and profits as security.…

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Opinion of the Court
HORTON, Judge.

HORTON, Judge.

The appellant was one of the defendants in the trial court and the appellees were the plaintiffs. The appellees instituted an action to foreclose a junior mortgage on two hotel properties in downtown Miami, during the course of which a receiver was appointed for the mortgaged premises on January 19, 1962. The mortgage contained a receivership clause and pledged the “rents, issues and profits” as security for the payment of the mortgage debt.

Prior to a hearing on the request for the appointment of a receiver, the parties entered into a stipulation which, in substance, admitted and confessed the allegations of the complaint for foreclosure and that the appellant had no defense or counterclaim. The stipulation provided for certain payments to be made within a specified time in order to place the mortgage in good standing and also contained a provision whereby “ * * * all rents, issues, incomes and profits derived from the property * * * *92shall be deposited * * * into a depository upon which vouchers can only be drawn * * * by * * * Sidney Wasserman and Samuel J. Kanner * * If the payments required by the terms of the stipulation were not made, then the appellees were entitled to apply without notice for the appointment of a receiver and a final decree of foreclosure with the further stipulation that upon the appointment of a receiver in the case of default, “ * * * any and all sums of money which shall remain on deposit in the depository * * * shall forthwith be paid to the said receiver to be applied toward the indebtedness due the plaintiffs in this cause.”

The payments were not made as required by the terms of the stipulation, whereupon the appellees applied for and obtained the appointment of a receiver who took over the operation of the two hotel properties covered by the mortgage sought to be foreclosed. A final decree of foreclosure was entered, and the properties were sold to the Biscayne Bay Corporation which bid and deposited with the clerk of the circuit court the sum of $52,000. A certificate of title was subsequently issued to the purchaser at the foreclosure sale. The receiver thereupon petitioned for confirmation of his accounts and discharge, to which appellant filed exceptions. The chancellor entered an order confirming the receiver’s accounts, directing a delivery to the plaintiffs of the sums of money and assets held by the receiver, discharging the receiver and dissolving his bond. It is from this latter order that the appeal has been taken.

The appellant contends on this appeal that certain items contained in the receiver’s final report, as well as his partial report,, were not rents, issues or profits derived from the property and therefore they were not assets in the hands of the receiver subj ect to the pledge contained in the mortgage for the payment of the mortgage debt.

Appellant also contends that, under the rule in White v. Anthony Inv. Co.1 the receiver had no power or right to take over “income” from the hotel property which appellant claimed was earned and accrued prior to default and the receiver’s appointment. We have viewed the record in the light of the above cited case and conclude that this latter contention is without merit.

As to the appellant’s first contention, there are some seven categories of monies and assets listed by the appellant which it claims, as its own property or conversely, that they did not constitute assets in the hands of the receiver subject to the pledge in the mortgage of the rents, issues and profits.

We have carefully examined the two reports rendered by the receiver, as-well as the accounting report prepared on behalf of the appellant, and conclude that the following items were specifically pledged by the stipulation or were subject to the pledge of the rents, issues and profits as security for the payment of the debt as-provided in the mortgage, i. e., (1) the city ledger accounts, (2) the house bank, (3) the claim for fire loss, (4) the parking lot security, and (5) the liquor stock. However,, the telephone security deposit, in the approximate amount of $900, and the remainder of a premium deposit of $2,097.07, for workmen’s compensation insurance were not rents, issues and profits covered by the terms of the mortgage, nor were they items-*93specifically pledged hy the stipulation. Therefore, they should not have been considered as assets in the hands of the receiver subject to the payment of the debt of the mortgage. See 45 Am.Jur., Receivers, § 145. “Rents, issues and profits” has a well understood meaning and refers to rents collected hy the party in possession or the net profits accruing to him from said property.2 These last two items clearly do not fall within the above definition.

Another item which the appellant claims was its property and not subject to the receivership, concerns certain security deposits in the sum of $2,565 collected by it from certain lessees of the hotel premises. These deposits were apparently not delivered to the receiver but in paragraph 8 of the order appealed the chancellor included that sum as chargeable against the appellant. The record in this cause does not disclose when these deposits were collected, but it must be assumed such collections were made prior to the receiver’s taking possession of the property. Nor has it been made to appear that they were collected after the mortgage was in default. Therefore, since the order appealed must be reversed for the entry of an order restoring to the appellant the items of the telephone deposit and the workmen’s compensation insurance premium deposits, the chancellor should reconsider the item of security deposits, collected by the appellant from lessees of the hotel premises, in the amount of $2,565 and determine whether such collections were made prior or subsequent to a default in the mortgage.3 If a default is found to have existed at the time of the collection, then the order should stand as to this item. Otherwise, an award of said sum should be made to the appellant in addition to the other items mentioned hereinabove.4

The order appealed is affirmed except as to the telephone and workmen’s compensation insurance premium deposits, and as to these, the order is reversed. The cause is remanded for the entry of an appropriate order not inconsistent herewith.

Affirmed in part, reversed in part and remanded with directions.


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  • Bornstein v. Somerson, 341 So. 2d 1043 (Fla. 2d DCA 1977)
    …having been sold during the term of the receivership, were personalty of the mortgagor and not a rent, issue, or profit of the mortgaged realty subject to application for reduction of the mortgage indebtedness. Cf. Bay Realty Corporation v. Becker, 157 So. 2d 91 (Fla.App.3d DCA 1963). See also, 22 Fla.Jur. Mortgages § 451. Were there no constructive severance of the fruit crop by the contract of June 18, 1974, then the mortgagee would be correct in asserting that these proceeds should have been applied to r…
  • Naples Awning & Glass, Inc. v. L.R. Cirou, 424 So. 2d 207 (Fla. 2d DCA 1983)
    …ttled against McPeak because he was not a party to that judgment. The defense that the monies were paid to the bankruptcy trustee also appears valid. A receiver is entitled to rents in Florida if the mortgage so provides. Bay Realty Corp. v. Becker, 157 So. 2d 91 (Fla. 3d DCA 1963). Under the 1898 Federal Bankruptcy Act, the question of whether the mortgage security interest extends to rents and profits is one of state law. Butner v. U.S., 440 U.S. 48, 99 S.Ct. 914, 59 L.Ed.2d 136 (1979). However, the Federa…
  • Becker v. Bay Realty Corp., 165 So. 2d 176 (Fla. 1964)
    …Certiorari denied without opinion. 157 So. 2d 91.…

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