Home Owners' Loan Corp. v. Baker

This is a suit in equity in which the plaintiff seeks to have the fife estate of the defendant in certain real estate, situated in Dartmouth in the county of Bristol, decreed to be junior to its mortgage on the same property. The suit was heard by a judge of the Superior Court on an agreed statement of facts and comes before us on appeal of the defendant from the final decree "that the life estate of the defendant ... be and hereby is declared junior to the lien held by the Home Owners’ Loan Corporation on the said premises by virtue of its mortgage referred to in the said bill of complaint.”

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