Burnet v. Dean

Pitney, V. C.

This is a bill to foreclose a mortgage given by the defendant Dean to the complainant, dated April 10th, 1891, covering certain lands within the corporate limits of the village of South Orange.

The municipality of South Orange is made a party defendant because it claims a paramount lien upon the premises for certain taxes assessed by it for municipal purposes for the several years intervening between 1877 and the date of the mortgage, and also for certain taxes assessed upon the premises for the several years since the execution of the mortgage up to and including 1897. The prayer…