Ellis v. Sullivan
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Bill in equity, filed in the Supreme Judicial Court for the county of Plymouth on June 6, 1921, against John J. Sullivan and Mary L. Ryder, for redemption from three mortgages owned by the defendant Sullivan upon certain real estate to which the plaintiff held title through purchase at a sale in foreclosure of a mortgage given by the husband of the defendant Ryder which was subject to her inchoate right of dower.
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Bill in equity, filed in the Supreme Judicial Court for the county of Plymouth on June 6, 1921, against John J. Sullivan and Mary L. Ryder, for redemption from three mortgages owned by the defendant Sullivan upon certain real estate to which the plaintiff held title through purchase at a sale in foreclosure of a mortgage given by the husband of the defendant Ryder which was subject to her inchoate right of dower. The suit was heard by De Convey, J., upon an agreed statement of facts, material among which, besides those described in the opinion, were the following: Henry H. Ryder, husband of…
1Opinion of the CourtJenney, J.
After the decision in Ryder v. Brockton Savings Bank, 238 Mass. 52, Mary L. Ryder, in accordance with the terms of the decree affirmed in that case, on May 25, 1921 re*63deemed three mortgages given by her husband, Henry H. Ryder, to that bank. She thereupon held title to said notes and mortgages “as if she were an assignee in due course with all the rights of enforcement and transfer and all other rights that the original holder” had. Immediately after redemption, Mrs. Ryder assigned the mortgages to John J. Sullivan who now owns them.
In the present suit Merton F. Ellis, who is the owner of the…
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