Crooker v. Holmes
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
Bill in equity inserted in a writ of attachment, dated February 23, 1871, brought to redeem certain described premises from the incumbrances thereon mentioned in the opinion.
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Bill in equity inserted in a writ of attachment, dated February 23, 1871, brought to redeem certain described premises from the incumbrances thereon mentioned in the opinion. They were formerly occupied as the homestead farm of Seth Crooker to whom one portion was conveyed by Albion K. P. Elwell, March 27, 1860, and the other portion was conveyed to said Seth Crooker by Thomas Subsequently to these conveyances Eben C. Andrews sued Seth Crooker, attached all his interest in real estate in Oxford county, and July 6, 1871, caused to be sold upon his execution by the officer holding the same, all…
1Opinion of the CourtAppleton, C. J.
This is a bill in equity to redeem a mortgage.
It appears that, on March 31, 1870, Seth Crooker mortgaged his homestead farm, consisting of two parcels of land purchased of different grantors, to Joseph McDonald to secure the sum of one hundred and fifty dollars, payable in one year. October 2, 1872, McDonald assigned his nóte and mortgage to the respondent, who in two days after that assignment, commenced proceedings to foreclose the said mortgage.
November 7, 1870, Seth Crooker mortgaged a part of his farm, being that purchased of one Elwell, to this complainant to secure a note of the…
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