Messier v. Ledoux

I. The plaintiff had no actual notice of the mortgage when he took his deed. He claims he is not chargeable with notice by its record in the registry office because of error in the mortgage in describing the property.

The mortgage described the property as lot 13 on a plan recorded on p. 527, vol. 403, of the Hillsborough registry, and lying on the west side of Willie street in Nashua, with a defined street frontage and depth of the lot. Except that no plan was recorded as stated, the description was correct.

The master found that the record of the mortgage gave the plaintiff legal notice of…