Snow v. Blount
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Bill in equity, filed July 18, 1901, to restrain the foreclosure of a mortgage on certain real estate in Whitman. In the Superior Court Fox, J. found that the plaintiff was not entitled to the aid of a court in equity, and ordered the bill dismissed with costs. At the request of the plaintiff the judge reported the case for determination by this court.
1Opinion of the CourtLathrop, J.
The plaintiff is an attorney at law who bought at private sale from the administrator of the estate of Maurice Finlon a parcel of land in Whitman for $90. This sale was authorized by a decree of the Probate Court. The plaintiff *490seeks by a bill in equity to have a mortgage on the land, held by the defendants, declared a cloud upon his title and cancelled, and that the defendants be restrained from foreclosing the mortgage. The defendants are the administrators of the estate of Ethan Monroe, to whom the son and sole heir of Maurice Finlon, together with the widow of Maurice, executed the…
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