Langman v. Alumni Association of the University

The primary issue in this appeal is whether a deed containing a mortgage assumption clause was repudiated by the grantee.

Dr. Margaretha W. Langman filed a bill of complaint seeking a declaration of rights pursuant to a deed to real property. The bill of complaint named, among others, the Alumni Association of the University of Virginia, doing business as the University of Virginia Fund (Alumni Association), which was the grantee in the deed. Langman, one of the grantors in the deed, alleged that the Alumni Association had failed to *494pay the mortgage secured by the property conveyed by the…