Legal Opinion
Brooks v. Bennett
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided September 22, 1931PublishedCited by 25 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtRugg, C.J.
This is a suit in equity for an accounting of the proceeds of the sale by foreclosure of a mortgage on real estate. The plaintiff was the holder of a fourth mortgage *13on certain real estate. Antecedent mortgages were a first mortgage to a savings bank in the sum of $1,200, a second mortgage written in the sum of $800 on which was actually due about $587, and a third mortgage in the sum of $200, the two latter being held by the defendant Bennett. In December, 1929, the defendant Bennett as the holder of the third mortgage began to exercise the power of sale therein contained by causing notice…
2Cases cited14 opinions
- Boston & Albany Railroad v. ReardonMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1917
- Bon v. GravesMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1914
- Way v. GreerMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1907
- Cook v. BasleyMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1877
- Donohue v. ChaseMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1881
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3Cited by25 opinions
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