Wood v. Inhabitants of Westborough
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Bill in equity, filed February 7,1884, by William L. Wood, Sarah A. Collins, and Viola R. A. Belknap, against the town of Westborough, Charles Aldrich, and Abner Prentiss, and alleging the following facts : On April 6, 1877, the defendant Aldrich executed a mortgage of a parcel of land in Southborough to W. B. Wood, to secure a promissory note for $3140, to be paid in semiannual payments of $100 each, the first payment to be made in six months from said April 6. The…
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Bill in equity, filed February 7,1884, by William L. Wood, Sarah A. Collins, and Viola R. A. Belknap, against the town of Westborough, Charles Aldrich, and Abner Prentiss, and alleging the following facts : On April 6, 1877, the defendant Aldrich executed a mortgage of a parcel of land in Southborough to W. B. Wood, to secure a promissory note for $3140, to be paid in semiannual payments of $100 each, the first payment to be made in six months from said April 6. The plaintiffs are now, and have been since September 28, 1882, the holders and owners of said mortgage and the note secured…
1Opinion of the CourtDeyens, J.
As the St. of 1881, c. 110, (Pub. Sts. e. 49, § 110,) was remedial in its character, and was not intended to change any rights of parties, who, as mortgagors or mortgagees, had interests in land which had been taken for public purposes, but only to provide a more convenient mode of adjudicating and ad-, justing them, it would be applicable to proceedings begun after its passage, even if the land to which they related had been previously taken. One remedy may be taken away and another substituted therefor, although such legislation operates incidentally on existing rights. Simmons v. Hanover,…
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