Kellogg v. Rockwell
Supreme Court of Connecticut
This was a bill in chancery for an account of the proceeds of mortgaged property, for the application thereof to the claims of the plaintiffs respectively, for liberty to redeem, and for other relief.
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This was a bill in chancery for an account of the proceeds of mortgaged property, for the application thereof to the claims of the plaintiffs respectively, for liberty to redeem, and for other relief. On the 12th of November 1846, Charles W. Rockwell mortgaged his dwelling-house and the land on which it stands, to Henry Hall and John A. Rockwell, to secure the sum of 8,200 dollars, made up of 4,000 dollars in liabilities purporting to be the proper debts of the mortgagor, and 4,200 dollars, purporting to be the proper debts of the Norwich Woolen Company, and a part of the sum of 49,200…
1Opinion of the CourtErmsvvoRTH, J.
This case, though extending over a great surface, and involving many and complex transactions, in truth involves only common and well settled principles. The amount of property is large, and it is divisible into parts* each of which is subject to its peculiar considerations; but to none of them have the plaintiffs a title, except the land and factory of the Norwich Woolen Company. This they seek to redeem. They insist, that the defendants, J. A. Rockwell and H. Hall, who are prior mortgagees, have other property which they received from Charles W. Rockwell and the Norwich Woolen Co., and…
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