Legal Opinion

Hobbs v. Simmonds

Supreme Court of Connecticut

Decided December 19, 1891PublishedCited by 12 opinions

Suit for the foreclosure of a judgment lien, brought to the Superior Court in Fairfield County, and heard before Thayer, J. Demurrer to complaint; demurrer overruled; facts found, and judgment for the plaintiff. The defendants appealed, assigning for error the overruling of the demurrer. The case is fully stated in the opinion.

1Opinion of the CourtTorrance, J.

On the 20th day of May, 1890, the plaintiff, Hobbs, before the Superior Court for Fairfield County, recovered' judgment against the defendants, Simmonds and Merritt. On the 22d day of May, 1890, he caused a certificate of judgment lien, based upon the judgment, to be duly filed and recorded, claiming therein a lien upon certain real estate of Simmonds which had been attached in the suit in which the judgment had been rendered.

Thereafter, on the same day, the plaintiff instituted against Simmonds and Merritt a suit to foreclose the judgment lien. To the complaint in that suit the defendants…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. Flynn v. MorganSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1887

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