Farmington Savings Bank v. Curran
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Suit to foreclose a mortgage, brought to the Superior Court in Hartford County and tried to the court, Thayer, J.; facts found and judgment rendered for the plaintiff as to a part only of the mortgaged premises, and appeal by it for alleged errors in the rulings of the court.
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Suit to foreclose a mortgage, brought to the Superior Court in Hartford County and tried to the court, Thayer, J.; facts found and judgment rendered for the plaintiff as to a part only of the mortgaged premises, and appeal by it for alleged errors in the rulings of the court. The mortgage deed in question was given by the defendant Bernard F. Curran, as guardian of William J. Sargeant and Arthur T. Sargeant, minors, by authority of the Court of Probate, to the plaintiff to secure a note of $2,200 with lawful accretions thereon. Catherine E. Curran, wife of Bernard F. Curran, is the principal…
1Opinion of the CourtAndrews, C. J.
Sarah Cassidy died in 1883, leaving four adult children, her only heirs. By her will she devised to them certain lands, a part of which she owned in fee, and a part of which belonged to the children in common as the heirs of a deceased brother who had died intestate. She believed herself to be the owner of all the land and devised it specifically to her children, directing how it should be divided between them. The children all believed their mother to be the owner of all the land. To her daughter Catherine E. Curran, who is the principal defendant in this case, she devised a strip of the…
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