COZORT, Judge.
In this appeal we consider whether the mortgage estate on land held in trust by a first lienholder merged with the fee simple estate obtained by the lienholder when it accepted and recorded a deed from the mortgagor conveying the encumbered land to the lienholder, thus allowing a junior lienholder to obtain clear title to the land by purchasing it at a sheriff's sale. We hold the doctrine of merger does not apply in this case and that the junior lienholder...
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