Abbe v. Goodwin
Supreme Court of Connecticut
This was a bill in chancery to redeem mortgaged premises, and for an injunction against an action of ejectment for such premises, brought by Goodwin against Abbe, and pending in court.
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This was a bill in chancery to redeem mortgaged premises, and for an injunction against an action of ejectment for such premises, brought by Goodwin against Abbe, and pending in court. The present suit was commenced in December, 1827. The parties were proprietors of adjoining building lots in the village of Litchfield; and the premises consisted of a right in a gang-way and of a strip of land contiguous to it, which Goodwin sold to Abbe, on the 26th of January 1826, for the sum of 900 dollars. To secure the purchase money, Abbe gave Goodwin four promissory notes, for 225 dollars each, bearing…
1Opinion of the CourtDaggett, J.
I. Is the defendant estopped or barred, by the matter appearing in the replication ? The case is embarrassed, by the decree of the county court. That court, instead of finding the facts specially, agreeably to the requirements of the statute, founded their decree on the general finding, that none of the facts were true. The words are : “ All and singular the facts are untrue.” This could not have been so ; for there are many of the facts thus found untrue, which the plaintiff now makes the basis of his bill. This is obvious upon inspection. It may then be well doubted if such a finding of the…
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