Hermanns v. Fanning
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Bill in equity, changed in the Superior Court from a writ of entry, and filed June 22, 1889, for the recovery of a parcel of land in Needham, and for other relief. Hearing before Bishop, J., who made a decree dismissing the bill, and reported the case for the determination of this court. If the plaintiff could maintain her bill, a decree was to be made directing a conveyance of the land to her; otherwise, the decree was to be affirmed.
1Opinion of the CourtField, J.
It appears from the report, that one Grover owned certain land in Needham, in the county of Norfolk; that on April 25, 1863, he mortgaged it to the Dedham Institution for Savings; and that afterwards he conveyed the equity of redemption, subject to this mortgage, to Ellen F. Starbuck. After her decease, the administratrix of her estate, on September 4, 1874, acting under a license from the Probate Court, sold and conveyed this equity to Charles W. Farnham. He, on October 19, 1874, conveyed the “ premises to Samuel Tompson, who, on November 18, 1874, conveyed them back to Charles W. Farnham,…
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