Garland v. Federal Land Bank

The issue before us is whether the payments of $991.51 for taxes and interest and the interest charges of $150 made by the defendant, the Federal Land Bank of Springfield, and totaling $1,141.51, are properly added to the mortgage debt of the plaintiffs, Ralph and Mildred Garland. The well established rule in these circumstances as lucidly expounded by Doe, C. J., in Morrison v. Manchester, 58 N. H. 538, 558, is that such charges are collectible because “the mortgagee is a creditor, justly entitled, by contract, to the payment of the original debt, without deducting from it the expenses of…