Green v. Cross
Supreme Court of New Hampshire
Writ oe entry for land in Berlin. Plea, nul disseizin. On trial tbe following facts appeared: William Y. Merrill, on the 12th of August, 1852, conveyed several tracts of land in Berlin, including the demanded premises, to William A. Wilson and Charles W. Gower, and took back from them a mortgage of the premises to secure payment of several promissory notes signed by them and payable to him or order.
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Writ oe entry for land in Berlin. Plea, nul disseizin. On trial tbe following facts appeared: William Y. Merrill, on the 12th of August, 1852, conveyed several tracts of land in Berlin, including the demanded premises, to William A. Wilson and Charles W. Gower, and took back from them a mortgage of the premises to secure payment of several promissory notes signed by them and payable to him or order. On the first of'February,- 1853, Wilson and Gower bought of the plaintiff several tracts of land in Berlin and Milan, and gave him a mortgage on these lands and also on the land purchased of…
1Opinion of the CourtPerley, C. J.
The.demandant claims title under two mortgages, both made by William A. Wilson and Charles W. Gower — one, on the 12th of August, 1852, to William Y. Merrill, the other, on the first of February, 1853, to the plaintiff himself. The defendant claims under a conveyance in fee from Wilson and Gower tú O. PI. Mason, dated December 25th, 1854, and a like conveyance from Mason to himself, dated August 26th, 1857. These mortgages covered the demanded premises and also other lands, and the defendant does not deny that the mortgages were once a valid incumbrance on the land occupied by him; but he…
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