Lockwood v. Bassett

The complainant, as administrator of Ohauncey M. Lockwood, claims a lien in the nature of a mortgage under a deed given by the defendant Sarah M. Bassett and Henry Bassett, her husband, to the intestate of certain lands the title to which at the date of the deed was in the husband. The lien which is claimed is for the sum of eight thousand dollars which it is conceded by the defense was had by Mrs. Bassett from the intestate, who was her brother. But Mrs. Bassett insists that the money was a gift to her from the intestate ; and the case, so far as it rests upon the facts, turns mainly upon…