Lord v. Sill
Supreme Court of Connecticut
This was a bill in chancery, brought by Lynde Lord, against Thomas Sill, to redeem certain mortgaged premises, and to obtain a conveyance of the defendant’s interest therein.
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This was a bill in chancery, brought by Lynde Lord, against Thomas Sill, to redeem certain mortgaged premises, and to obtain a conveyance of the defendant’s interest therein. To this bill, the defendant filed an answer, at the term of the superior court holden in December, 1853, when a committee was appointed, whose report, which was substantially as follows, embraced the facts material to the present case. . On.theT3th day of November, 1852, John Hart was the owner, in fee, of the tract of land, described in the plaintiff’s bill, subject to the following mortgages, executed by said Hart,…
1Opinion of the CourtHinman, J.
The plaintiff’s bill takes no notice of the mortgage to the defendant, of November 11th, 1851; and as there is no replication to the defendant’s answer, in which that mortgage, with other facts, is set out, and title claimed under it, the proceedings are, in this respect, informal,—the parties, however, went to trial before' the committee, as if there had been a denial of all the facts set out by the plaintiff in his bill, and also a denial, by the plaintiff, of all the new matter, alleged by the defendant in his answer, and the committee have made a full report in regard to all the matters…
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