The original receipt arrived at the courthouse two days before the auction date.
I was in the lawyer's office when he opened the bank's sealed packet. The receipt showed that my father had paid the bank the full disputed amount. A second page recorded it as a suspense item, with no fees listed.
The bank's attorney agreed to a new accounting. The judge ordered the bank to remove the payment from the debt and barred Voss from claiming access to the road under his proposed contract.
It did not erase the loan. It did not make the estate solvent. We still had to sell part of the timber rights to cover the remaining debt, and the bank kept its mortgage on the house.
But the auction was canceled.
We saved the ridge.
The estate house did not come back to me. The bank sold its furnishings to
