Legal Opinion

O'Brien v. Logan

Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court

Decided November 29, 1920PublishedCited by 8 opinions

Bill in equity, filed in the Superior Court on May 7, 1907, and afterwards amended, as stated in the opinion, for redemption of certain property on Bowdoin Street in Boston from a second mortgage held by the defendant Lawrence J. Logan, the plaintiff alleging that the property had been sold and conveyed to the defendant John A. Coveney at a sale purporting to be in foreclosure of that mortgage, and that the sale should be declared void.

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Bill in equity, filed in the Superior Court on May 7, 1907, and afterwards amended, as stated in the opinion, for redemption of certain property on Bowdoin Street in Boston from a second mortgage held by the defendant Lawrence J. Logan, the plaintiff alleging that the property had been sold and conveyed to the defendant John A. Coveney at a sale purporting to be in foreclosure of that mortgage, and that the sale should be declared void. There also were prayers for an accounting, “that the plaintiff may be awarded damages against the defendant Logan for the injuries done her by the defendant,”…

1Opinion of the CourtCrosby, J.

This is a bill brought to set aside a foreclosure sale under a power in a junior mortgage and for an accounting, with a prayer for alternative relief as follows: “Or that the plaintiff may be awarded damages against the defendant Logan for the injuries done her by the defendant.” The bill was filed on May 7, 1907. The original plaintiff having died since the filing of the bill, her heirs and the administrators of her estate have been made parties plaintiff. By amendment, Edward L. Logan, Thomas McCormick, and the Columbian National Life Insurance Company have also been added as parties…

2Cases cited10 opinions

  1. Snow v. AlleyMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1892
  2. Hewitt v. HayesMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1910
  3. Rogers v. BarnesMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1897
  4. Austin v. HatchMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1893
  5. Doucette v. BaldwinMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1907

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3Cited by8 opinions

  1. Sandler v. SilkMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1935
  2. Cambridge Savings Bank v. CroninMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1935
  3. Harper v. Interstate Brewery Co.Oregon Supreme Court · 1941
  4. McCarthy v. SimonMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1924
  5. Fulgenitti v. CariddiMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1935

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