Wall v. Mason
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
The first case was a bill in equity, filed March 13,1860, by Joseph Wall against John Mason and Joseph Thayer. The second case was a cross bill, filed in January 1868 by Ann Lynch, who, under the name of Nancy Burke, had then been joined as a defendant in the original bill.
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The first case was a bill in equity, filed March 13,1860, by Joseph Wall against John Mason and Joseph Thayer. The second case was a cross bill, filed in January 1868 by Ann Lynch, who, under the name of Nancy Burke, had then been joined as a defendant in the original bill. The bill in the first case alleged that, on December 12,1857, the defendant John Mason, for a valuable consideration, conveyed land in Rutland to the plaintiff Joseph Wall and to Thomas Wall, by a warranty deed with the usual covenants, and Thomas Wall afterwards conveyed all his interest in this land to the plaintiff, but…
1Opinion of the CourtChapman, C. J.
The original bill in favor of Joseph Wall against John Mason and Joseph Thayer, was brought to establish a right of subrogation to the title of the defendant Thayer' in certain property which Thayer held in mortgage. It was held that the plaintiff Lynch ought to be made a party, because she had set up a claim to share with Wall the right of subrogation. Having been brought in, she brings this cross bill for the purpose of establishing her right.
The plaintiff contends that she was a creditor of Thomas Wall, and that his conveyance to Joseph was fraudulent as to creditors. On the 18th of…
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