Waterman v. Curtis
Supreme Court of Connecticut
This was a petition in chancery brought to the superior court for Hartford county, by'Nathan M. Waterman, against John J. Curtis, Lewis Callender and the Hartford Savings Bank and Building Association, for the redemption of certain real estate. Curtis and Callender filed a cross bill for a foreclosure of the plaintiff.
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This was a petition in chancery brought to the superior court for Hartford county, by'Nathan M. Waterman, against John J. Curtis, Lewis Callender and the Hartford Savings Bank and Building Association, for the redemption of certain real estate. Curtis and Callender filed a cross bill for a foreclosure of the plaintiff. The cause was referred to a committee who found substantially as follows : In the year 1853, one John C. Pratt, being seized of certain real estate in Hartford, by three separate deeds mortgaged the same to the Hartford Savings Bank and Building Association, to secure three…
1Opinion of the CourtStorrs, C. J.
The only relief prayed for in this bill, respecting which it is claimed by the plaintiff in error that the decree of the superior court is erroneous, is the liberty of redeeming the mortgages held by the defendants, Callender and Curtis. The bill contains no averment of the amount due on the debts secured by those mortgages, or either of them, nor that either of those debts was contracted on an usurious agreement. The only allegation, which by possibility could relate to that subject, is the one in which it is stated, only in the most general form, that the interest of Pratt in the property…
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- Baldwin v. NortonSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1817
- Curtis v. MastenNew York Court of Chancery · 1844
- Lord v. SillSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1854
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