Getchell v. Roberts

Ames, C.

Plaintiff was the owner of a mortgage executed by one Dennis Regan upon a tract of land owned by hiin. After the death of Regan, the plaintiff began an action against the heirs of the mortgagor for the foreclosure of the mortgage, which action proceeded regularly to decree and a sale, at which the plaintiff became the purchaser for a sum exceeding the mortgage debt. The sale ivas duly confirmed, and a deed of the premises executed and delivered by the sheriff to the purchaser, who made the same of record in the county, and paid the excess of purchase money to the. defendants in the…