Middle Island Land & Water Co. v. Hutner

Plaintiff brought an action to foreclose a mortgage on certain land in Suffolk county executed by defendants Cattanach and others to plaintiff on December 15, 1931. It was a purchase-money mortgage on about two and one-half acres of land under the water of Lake Bonkonkoma, conveyed that day by plaintiff to defendants Cattanach and others, and a first mortgage on a portion of an adjoining thirteen and one-half-acre upland parcel which then vested in the defendants Cattanach and others. Plaintiff joined Nathan M. Hutner as a defendant. He had a recorded tax deed dated December 6, 1937, the…