Stearns v. Thompson

This is a bill in equity for partition of certain real estate in the Town of Rumford, brought by the Trustee in bankruptcy of one James H. Kerr against the bankrupt’s daughter, Charlotte J. Kerr Thompson, his present wife, Alice F. Kerr, and the Rumford Falls Trust Company.

To be decided is whether or not the daughter, heir at law of her mother, Fannie M. Kerr, the former wife, is estopped to defend upon the title her mother had, by reason of the fact that while owner her mother signed a mortgage of it, given by her husband before his bankruptcy to the Rumford Falls Trust Company, containing…