Converse v. Cook
Supreme Court of Vermont
This was an ejectment for lands [in Bridport. The plaintiff in support of the issue, gave in evidence a mortgage deed from one Farmery Hemmingway to himself, dated Dec. 2, 1829, to secure payment on a note for $562,00 together with the terms described in the condition.
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This was an ejectment for lands [in Bridport. The plaintiff in support of the issue, gave in evidence a mortgage deed from one Farmery Hemmingway to himself, dated Dec. 2, 1829, to secure payment on a note for $562,00 together with the terms described in the condition. Also, a deed from Farmery Hemmingway to Jonas Hemming-way, dated Sept. 20, 1830, and sundry subsequent conveyances showing that the defendants derived their title from said-Jonas, The possession of the defendants'at the time of. bringing of this suit was admitted. The defendant then gave in evidence, a mortgage deed from…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Williams, Ch. J.
The plaintiff claims title by virtue of a mortgage deed from Farmery Hemmingway, dated in December 1829. Farmery Hemmingway, in September 1830, conveyed the' same premises to Jonas Hemmingway, and by a regular chain of conveyances, the title of Jonas Hemmingway came to the defendants. The defendants attempted to set up a prior title derived to them from the representatives of Vashni Hemmingway, to whom-Farmery Hemmingway had mortgaged the premises in May 1814,-on which mortgage a decree of foreclosure had been obtained in-January 1826.…
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