Livingstone v. Murphy

This is a bill to reform a mortgage deed. While its allegations, especially with reference to the existence and nature of the agreement under which the mortgage was given, are somewhat defective and might perhaps be held insufficient as against a special demurrer, still, in the absence of such a demurrer, the bill may be construed as setting out in substance that there was an agreement between the plaintiff on the one hand, and the mortgagor, Margaret J. Murphy, and her husband, James H. Murphy, on the other, that the mortgage should cover the entire interest both of the husband and wife in…