Jenkins v. Trustees of Andover Theological Seminary

This is a bill in equity in which the plaintiff asks the court to order the defendants to cancel and discharge a mortgage held by them upon certain real estate owned by him, and to release the property 66 from the lien thereof.”

The bill sets out the plaintiff’s title to the land,* the mortgage thereon given by him to the trustees of Phillips Academy (from whom the defendants claim as assignees) and the further averments (contained in the sixth paragraph) “ that since the twenty-third day of May, 1884, no sum has been paid by him upon said mortgage as principal or interest, and no sum has been…