Philadelphia Mortgage & Trust Co. v. Oyler

Two separate actions in equity were instituted for the purpose of foreclosing mortgage liens on two tracts of real estate, and the recovery of the debts secured thereby, which were afterwards consolidated and prosecuted as one action. The matters in controversy are common to both actions before consolidation; hence,the propriety of treating them as but a single case. After the execution of the mortgages, the properties mortgaged, being two adjoining improved lots, were several times transferred, the grantee in each instance assuming and agreeing, as a part of the consideration for the…