Real Estate-Land Title & Trust Co. v. Northeastern Title & Trust Co.

MacNeille, J.,

In this suit, the plaintiffs seek to recover money they paid for taxes and municipal liens which accrued on a piece of land before foreclosure of a mortgage held by the plaintiffs.

The property was purchased at sheriff’s safe by plaintiffs for $450, and thereafter they were forced to pay the sum of $5,742.58 to the receiver of taxes for the preservation of their lien.

The title to this land at the time of the foreclosure was in the name of Northeastern Title & Trust Company, one of the defendants — it being at that time the registered owner.

There is no doubt that, under the…