Kelly v. Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance

The appellant is the conservator of Sarah Boggs, and filed a petition under a former decree to which the parties above named were parties, to compel the insurance company to execute a quit-claim to some real estate which had been sold under the decree, and bid in by the company, and for which the company, when the petition was filed, held a certificate of sale.

The ground of equity claimed in the petition is immaterial for present purposes. The only relief asked was that quit-claim; no other could be given on that petition; and that quit-claim the appellant obtained, by redeeming from the…