Bacon v. Brown
Supreme Court of Connecticut
This was a bill in chancery, praying for a foreclosure of mortgaged premises. Joseph Brown, one of the defendants, alone appeared, and filed a cross-bill and answer. On a hearing of the cause before the superior court, at Hartford, January term 1848, on the bill, cross-bill and answer, the following facts were found ; which are all that are material relating to the questions made by the parties.
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This was a bill in chancery, praying for a foreclosure of mortgaged premises. Joseph Brown, one of the defendants, alone appeared, and filed a cross-bill and answer. On a hearing of the cause before the superior court, at Hartford, January term 1848, on the bill, cross-bill and answer, the following facts were found ; which are all that are material relating to the questions made by the parties. On the 27th of January 1842, Henry W. Bacon, being seised in fee of one undivided half of a certain parcel of land in the city of Hartford, executed and delivered to the plaintiff a deed thereof, in…
1Opinion of the CourtWaite, J.
That the deed from II. W. Bacon to the plaintiff is good, as between the original parties, is admitted. But it is insisted, that it is not so, as against the defendant, Brown, a subsequent incumbrancer, because it does not sufficiently shew, either the amount of the indebtedness, its nature, or even the fact of its existence.
Cases involving the validity of mortgage deeds have been so frequently before this court, that the rules applicable to them, have become as well settled, as the nature of the subject will admit of. But little more remains to be done, than to apply those rules to the…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Hughes v. EdwardsSupreme Court of the United States · 1824
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