Holmes v. Turner's Falls Co.
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Writ of entry, dated March 3, 1883, against the Turner’s Falls Company and the Turner’s Falls Lumber Company, to recover a strip of land at Turner’s Falls. Plea, nul disseisin, with certain specifications of defence, which need not now be stated. At the trial in the Superior Court, before Thompson, J., the jury returned a verdict for the demandant for a portion of the premises described in the writ; and the tenants alleged exceptions, which appear in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtField, J.
It is difficult to deal with the exceptions in this case, because they are in parts obscure, and it is impossible to apply all the deeds put in evidence to the land.
The “ demandant had no other title excepting such as he acquired by the sale under the mortgage.” The tenants asked the court to rule that this sale “ was invalid and the deed under it invalid.” The court ruled that “ the sale was a good sale and the deed valid.” This mortgage was given by Nathaniel Holmes *591and David A. Wood to Timothy M. Stoughton, on April 10, 1869. Stoughton released two tracts of land from the mortgage, and…
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