Legal Opinion
Averill v. Cone
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
Decided February 27, 1930PublishedCited by 7 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtSturgis, J.
On this Appeal in Equity the plaintiff, in his capacity as Administrator of the estate of John N. Adams,, late of Old Town, Maine, deceased, seeks to recover for sale to pay debts of his intestate’s estate, a certain farm located in New Limerick, Maine, the legal title to which now stands in the defendant.
The Bill avers that John N. Adams, in his lifetime, held a mortgage on this New Limerick farm, given by one Bruce N. McKinnon to secure his six promissory notes of even date. The mortgagee began foreclosure, but on October 11, 1924, before the equity of redemption had expired, assigned the…
2Cases cited1 opinion
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