Two questions are presented for determination:
1. Must the increased bid at a trustee’s sale of land under a deed of trust or mortgage be paid to the clerk of the Superior Court or to the trustee ?
2. Was the owner of the land, to wit, J. T. Brothers, entitled to intervene in the cause at the hearing ?
C. S., 2591, provides in express terms that the sale of property under a mortgage or deed of trust “shall not be deemed to be closed under ten days. If in ten days from the date of the sale the sale price is increased ten per cent, where the price does not exceed $500, and five per cent where, the price exceeds $500, and the same is paid to the clerk of the' Superior Court, the mortgagee, trustee, executor, or person offering the real estate for sale shall reopen the sale of said property and advertise the same in the same manner as in the first instance. . . . Where the bid or offer is raised, as prescribed herein, and the amount paid to the clerk, he shall issue an order to the mortgagee,” etc.
A reading of the statute will disclose that the law, as now written, prescribes the payment of an increased bid to the clerk and not to the trustee, mortgagee, or other person offering the land for sale. The pay*246ment of the increased bid to the trustee was ineffectual, and, therefore, the bid, not haying been raised as required by law, the plaintiff is entitled to a deed for the premises. In re Ware, 181 N. C., 693.
It must then inevitably follow that, if the plaintiff is entitled to a deed under the facts disclosed by this record, the intervener, J. T. Brothers, had no right to intervene at the hearing, and the judgment denying his motion to intervene was correct.
Affirmed.