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Dear Associates:
The Oregon Court of Appeals has ruled that a lender obtained nothing by an assignee's subsequent assignment of his interest in a vendor's interest in a land purchase contract where the assignee had only a security interest in the contract and did not assign the underlying debt that it secured. Futrell v. Wagner , 96 Or. App 27, 771 P. 2d 292 (1989).
Futrell sold property under a land sale contract to Waibel. Futrell borrowed $200,000 from Busby and assigned his interest in the Waibel contract to Busby as security. Busby then borrowed $100,000 from Houston and assigned his assignee's interest in the Waibel contract to Houston as security. There was no assignment to Houston of the $200,000 Futrell to Busby promissory note. Busby defaulted on the $100,000 loan to Houston.
Houston was without security. The court of appeals held that the "assignment of a security interest without the assignment of the debt that it secures yields the assignee nothing."
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