Lancy v. Abington Savings Bank
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Petition, for registration and confirmation of title to land at the corner of-Catherine and Meyer Streets, in that part of Boston called West Roxbury, filed January 22, 1900. The respondents filed separate answers, the Abington Savings Bank claiming the land as mortgagee, and Hildebrand the other respondent claiming the land as owner.
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Petition, for registration and confirmation of title to land at the corner of-Catherine and Meyer Streets, in that part of Boston called West Roxbury, filed January 22, 1900. The respondents filed separate answers, the Abington Savings Bank claiming the land as mortgagee, and Hildebrand the other respondent claiming the land as owner. At the hearing in the Court of Registration, before Davis, J., the following facts were found by the judge: That on September 5, 1895, the record title of the land in question was in one Peter P. Veale; that on September 5,1895, Veale mortgaged the land to said…
1Opinion of the CourtBarker, J.
The petition for registration of title was filed on January 22, 1900, and dismissed on March 23, 1900.
The tax sale under which the petitioner contends that he holds an absolute title in fee, not subject to redemption, was made on October 8, 1895, the land then being subject to a mortgage to the Abington Savings Bank, one of the respondents, made on September 5, 1895. The bank had no notice of the tax sale until May, 1899. On June 3, 1896, the bank entered to foreclose its mortgage, and on June 5, 1896, made a foreclosure sale to a person who, as part of the same transaction, reconveyed the…
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