Hills v. Loomis
Supreme Court of Vermont
Bill in Chancery. The bill alleges that the orators, James H. Hills, and his wife, M. D. Hills, of Burlington, on the 19th day of March, 1863, executed and delivered to Edward C. Loomis, a deed of a certain piece of land in Burlington, therein described, which deed, though in terms absolute, was executed for the purpose, and with the understanding on the orators’ part, of securing said Loomis for such sum or sums of money as ho had paid, or might thereafter pay, to satisfy a…
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Bill in Chancery. The bill alleges that the orators, James H. Hills, and his wife, M. D. Hills, of Burlington, on the 19th day of March, 1863, executed and delivered to Edward C. Loomis, a deed of a certain piece of land in Burlington, therein described, which deed, though in terms absolute, was executed for the purpose, and with the understanding on the orators’ part, of securing said Loomis for such sum or sums of money as ho had paid, or might thereafter pay, to satisfy a decree of foreclosure in favor of one L. M. Stevens against the said James H. Hills ; that the said Loomis, as the…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Wheeler, J.
The allegations in the orators’ bill are very meagre, and if its sufficiency were under consideration upon demurrer, it might be found to be wanting in some essential particulars, but the defendant has answered it fully, and answered it in the aspect, in which it was intended to have been brought, and testimony has been taken on both sides with reference to issues made upon the answer in that aspect and a final decree made without any question as to its sufficiency having been made in the court of chancery. Under these circumstances it is…
2Cases cited3 opinions
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