Williams v. Robinson
Supreme Court of Connecticut
This was a bill in chancery for a foreclosure, an injunction against waste and the appointment of a receiver. The facts alleged in the bill, and found by the court, are comprised, substantially, in the following statement.
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This was a bill in chancery for a foreclosure, an injunction against waste and the appointment of a receiver. The facts alleged in the bill, and found by the court, are comprised, substantially, in the following statement. On the 2nd of October, 1840, Joseph Robinson, one of the defendants, applied to the plaintiff to borrow of him the sum of 1900 dollars; and, to induce the plaintiff to make the loan, Robinson stated, that he owned in fee, and free from all incumbrances, two fifths of a certain farm or tract of land in Stonington, containing about 300 acres; and that to secure the repayment…
1Opinion of the CourtWaite, J.
The questions necessarily involved in the present case, are, whether the plaintiff is entitled to a decree of foreclosure, and also to the appointment of a receiver.
1. The defendant Joseph Robinson executed and delivered to the plaintiff a mortgage deed of two-fifths of a certain farm, which formerly belonged to his father. Joshua Robinson. The interest which he had in the property, depends upon the construction to be given to the will of his father, by which the farm was devised to the five sons of the testator. One-fifth the mortgagor claimed as his own share under the will, and the other…
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