Legal Opinion

Burley v. Flint

U.S. Circuit Court for the Northern District of Illnois

Decided December 15, 1879Published

[In equity. Bill by Augustus H. Burley, assignee in bankruptcy of David Kreigh, against James L. Flint, executor of Thompson J. S. Flint, deceased, to review so much of a decree of foreclosure as denied the statutory right to redeem.] Motion [by defendant] to dismiss the bill of review for want of necessary allegations and for want of equity.

1Opinion of the Court

BLODGETT, District Judge.

This is a bill of review for errors on the face of the record, filed by the complainant, as assignee of David Kreigh, a bankrupt, charging in substance, that on the 31st day of March, 1877, said Flint exhibited in this court his original bill of complaint, for the foreclosure of a mortgage before that time given by said David Kreigh, and held by the complainant in said original bill; that complainant in this cause was made a party defendant to said bill, and that such proceedings were had in said cause; that on the 19th day of October, 1S77, a decree for the…

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