Beardsley v. Empire Trust Co.

This is on bill to quiet title with an answer and cross-bill, asserting the right of the defendant to foreclose a blanket mortgage on four lots of a tract of about six hundred lots owned by the complainant.

The facts as stated in the brief and admitted at the argument are practically as follows:

The complainant, Empire Trust Company, is a corporation organized and existing under the laws of the State of New York, and having its principal office at No. 120 Broadway, borough of Manhattan, New York City, New York.

That heretofore and on or about the 8th day of May, 1911, one Josephine M. Brown, a…