McNeil v. O'Brien
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Bill in equity, filed in the Superior Court on April 28, 1908, by the holder of a mortgage made by Mary A. Goodwin dated October 81, 1904, which conveyed a certain parcel of land on Bowdoin Street in that part of Boston called Dorchester, to redeem the land from sales made by the collector of taxes on September 28,1904, for the non-payment of certain sewer assessments, assessed upon this and adjoining land then owned by the trustees of the Meeting House Hill Land Company.
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Bill in equity, filed in the Superior Court on April 28, 1908, by the holder of a mortgage made by Mary A. Goodwin dated October 81, 1904, which conveyed a certain parcel of land on Bowdoin Street in that part of Boston called Dorchester, to redeem the land from sales made by the collector of taxes on September 28,1904, for the non-payment of certain sewer assessments, assessed upon this and adjoining land then owned by the trustees of the Meeting House Hill Land Company. The ease was referred to Stephen H. Tyng, Esquire, as master. He filed a report containing the findings which are stated…
1Opinion of the CourtBugg, J.
The plaintiff as a mortgagee seeks to redeem certain real estate covered by his mortgage from sales for sewer assessments. As the plaintiff does not now attack the validity *596of the sales, these are assumed in favor of the respondent to be legal. The only questions argued are whether the plaintiff as mortgagee is entitled to redeem, and if he is, how much he should pay. The case was sent to a master, who found that after the lien attached and before the sale by the tax collector, the then owner of the land had executed and delivered a certain mortgage, which through assignments came to the…
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