Gross v. Hammond

The appeal in this case is from a final decree dismissing an amended bill of complaint, the purpose of which was to require the defendants', the appellees here, to accept redemption from the lien of a mortgage on certain real estate and to require the fee simple title therein to be reinvested in the complainants.

The record shows that Ella C. Reed owned the property involved in this suit and while she was the owner thereof she encumbered the same with mortgages; that at her death the property so encumbered passed to Freeman F. Gross. When Gross acquired the property he endorsed the notes…