Hardy v. Keene

Bill in equity to foreclose a mortgage upon land in Roxbury formerly owned by Osborne & Hale, and which was sold and conveyed by them, February 1, 1870, to one Ruggles for the agreed price of $500, for which he gave them his notes of that date secured by a mortgage of the premises. September 2 of that year Ruggles borrowed of the plaintiff’s wife, Josephine M. Hardy, $325, for which he gave her his note, secured by a second mortgage of the same premises; and this is the mortgage now sought to be foreclosed. Josephine having deceased, the plaintiff, as administrator of her estate, brought suit…