Wells v. Cooper
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Action to recover a large number of forfeitures for the neglect of the defendant to file a certificate of foreclosure under General Statutes, §§ 3012 and 3013; brought to the City Court of the city of New Haven, and heard before Pickett, J. Facts found and judgment rendered for the plaintiffs. The defendant appealed; the plaintiffs also appealed on the ground that the judgment should have been for a larger sum. The case is fully stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtLoomis, J.
This is an action to recover the forfeiture provided in section 4, page 358, of the General Statutes of 1875, now constituting section 3013 of the General Statutes of 1888. The statute is as follows:—“ If such person ” (the mortgagee in a foreclosure suit) “ shall neglect to make *54and lodge such certificate for one month after such title shall become absolute, he shall forfeit five dollars to him who shall sue therefor, for every month of such neglect.”
It seems from the finding that the title to the mortgaged premises became absolute in the mortgagee pursuant to the decree of foreclosure on…
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