Cochran v. Pascault
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Appeals from the Circuit Court for Cecil County, in Equity. The nature of the case is stated in the opinion of the Court. The Court below passed a decree in both cases, dismissing the cross-bill of Cochran and wife and directing a sale of the mortgaged premises as prayed by the original bill of Pascault and wife. Prom these decrees the present appeals were taken.
1Opinion of the CourtMiller, J.
The main question arising on these appeals is presented in this way:—On the 5th of August, 1871, Francis R. Pascault and Catharine H. Pascault his wife, and Louisa Lusby, sold and conveyed two parts of a tract of land in Cecil County, called “ Greenfield,” to Henry S. Cochi’an for the sum of $40,000, and on the same day Cochran and wife executed a mortgage of the land to Mrs. Catharine Pascault to secure the purchase money, which, by the terms of the mortgage, was made payable in instalments, and on a long credit. Cochran having made default, the mortgagee, on the 20th of August, 1878, filed…
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