Barleycorn v. Woolley

The plaintiff, the foreclosing mortgagee of realty, moves to compel the purchaser at the foreclosure sale to complete his purchase, and the purchaser contends that the title is not marketable and asks for the return of Ms payment on account and for reimbursement of Ms expenses. The claimed defect relates to the attempt to bring in as parties defendant the successors in interest, whoever they may be, of James Woolley, who died on February 6, 1918, in Brooklyn, New York city, intestate, seized of an undivided interest in the mortgaged premises. The plaintiff had obtained, in right season, an…