Manogue v. Bryant
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Hearing on appeal by the defendant from a decree in equity correcting a misdescription of certain premises contained in a mortgage and enjoining a judgment creditor of the mortgagors from selling the property under execution.
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Hearing on appeal by the defendant from a decree in equity correcting a misdescription of certain premises contained in a mortgage and enjoining a judgment creditor of the mortgagors from selling the property under execution. The Court in its opinion stated the case as follows: ■ This is an appeal from a decree correcting the description of certain premises contained in a mortgage, and enjoining the sale of the part of the lot embraced in said correction, under an execution against the mortgagors. The following is a brief history of the facts upon which the decree rests, concerning which…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Shepard
1. As between Bryant and the Lang brothers, the allegations of the bill and the proof in their support are sufficient *256to sustain the decree correcting the description .in the deed of trust by extending the front line of the lot to the western wall of the hotel building and embracing the strip in controversy. There was nothing in the record title of the Langs to indicate the existence of this strip. The failure to include it expressly could only be discovered by actual survey or measurement, and there was nothing to suggest the need or importance of this. The hotel building covered it all…
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