McCloskey v. Bowden

Walker, Chancellor.

The defendant, Bowden, and his wife made a mortgage to Alice and Ann Maguire for $3,000. Alice died, and by her will bequeathed her undivided one-half interest in the mortgage, with the rest of her estate, to her sister Ann,, for life, with remainder to the defendant, James J. Bowden. Ann died, leaving a will in which she appointed the complainant executrix, and bequeathed to her a one-half interest in the mortgage, with the rest of her estate. The other half interest in the mortgage then passed to the defendant, Bowden, under the will of Alice, the life estate of Ann…