Jenkins v. Continental Insurance

Woodruff, Judge.

The general proposition, that a junior incumbrancer is entitled to redeem a prior mortgage, is, I apprehend, too well settled to be now opened for discussion. Such is the language of the elementary treatises, and the right is recognized in numerous adjudged cases. (Fell agt. Brown, 2 Bro. C. C. 278; Stonehemer agt. Thompson, 2 Atk. 440; Knight agt. Knight, 3 P., Williams 331, 4 Kent’s Com. 162; Story’s Eq. Jur. § 1,023; Burnet agt. Denniston et al., 5 Johns. ch.35; Pardee agt. Van Auken, 3 Barb. 535; Averill agt. Taylor, 4 Selden, 44; Roosevelt agt. The President, &c., of the…