Alexander v. Grover
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Bill in equity, inserted in a writ in the Superior Court dated October 18,1904, to redeem certain real estate from an equitable mortgage. The case is stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtSheldon, J.
The plaintiff alleges in his bill that in January, 1902, he conveyed to the defendant his equity of redemption in two parcels of land and the buildings thereon, subject to mortgages amounting to $6,000, and situated one in Cambridge and the other in Quincy; that this conveyance though absolute in form, was really a conveyance in trust or equitable mortgage to secure the defendant for an existing indebtedness and for a new loan amounting together to $3,800, or $9,800 including the prior mortgages, and that the plaintiff was to have the right to pay off the loan, and thereupon to take back the…
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