Mortgagees do not have the power to stand in the way of a good-faith judicial sale of encumbered property, the Pennsylvania Superior Court has ruled.

In a published April 23 opinion in In re Estate of Anna Marie Leipold, a three-judge panel of the appeals court reversed a ruling by the Westmoreland County Orphans’ Court Division that refused to order a judicial sale of a home in Ligonier because the mortgagee, Quicken Loans, objected.