Squier v. Shepard

The Chancellor.

The bill is filed to foreclose a mortgage given January 21st, 1870, by Samuel G. Acton and wife to John Hoey, on seventeen acres of land in Long Branch, for $16,000 and interest, and assigned by the mortgagee, February 7th, 1870, to Bela S. Squier, the complainant’s intestate. The mortgage was given for purchase-money of the mortgaged premises on the sale thereof by Hoey to Acton. Acton conveyed the property June 2d, 1870, to Mrs. Jane T. C. Wiswall, subject to the mortgage, the payment of which she assumed. On July 21st, 1870, Mrs. Wiswall conveyed part of the property, two…