Rowan v. Sharps' Rifle Manufacturing Co.
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Bill for a foreclosure. The respondents filed an answer and cross-bill, and the case was referred to a committee, by whom the facts were found. The mortgaged premises were the two outer sections of a tract of land of about twenty-five acres, situated in the town of Hartford, upon the central section of which stood a rifle factory, known as Sharps’ Rifle Factory.
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Bill for a foreclosure. The respondents filed an answer and cross-bill, and the case was referred to a committee, by whom the facts were found. The mortgaged premises were the two outer sections of a tract of land of about twenty-five acres, situated in the town of Hartford, upon the central section of which stood a rifle factory, known as Sharps’ Rifle Factory. The mortgage was made by Robbins & Lawrence to Fox, Henderson & Co., of London, in Great Britain, on the 11th of December, 1855, to secure the sum of $130,000 advanced by the latter upon a contract of Robbins & Lawrence and of the…
1Opinion of the CourtHinman, C. J.
The original bill seeks to foreclose the re7 spondents’ interest in certain mortgaged premises, but the parties have conflicting claims to the property, and the result in the superior court was a decree in favor of the respondents upon their cross-bill and answer, by which the petitioner’s interest therein was foreclosed, unless he paid to the respondents *17a large sum of money claimed as damages against the British Government, represented in this cause by the petitioner,Rowan.
The premises are the two outer sections of a tract of about twenty-five acres, upon the central section of which the…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Rowan v. Sharps' Rifle Manufacturing Co.Supreme Court of Connecticut · 1860
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