Reeves v. Huckins

The questions to be decided in this case concern the rights and liabilities, as between themselves, of parties who each own a part of an equity of redemption. The unquestionable right of the mortgagee to demand the whole mortgage debt, if they or either of them should seek to redeem from him, is not involved. The owner of a part of the equity, having purchased the outstanding mortgage interest, now claims to succeed to all the mortgagee’s rights, and to disregard his own liability and duty as between him and the plaintiff. Whether the defendant’s purchase of the foreclosing mortgagee’s rights…