Mann v. Bugbee

Complainant's suit is for deficiency due on a mortgage debt, after foreclosure sale.

The facts, as pleaded and proved, are somewhat more complicated than the following summary, but may be stated as follows without affecting the principles involved:

In 1924 Harry Haveson gave to John Van Nest his bond of $5,000 and his mortgage on a house and lot owned by him fronting twenty-one and one-half feet on Brunswick avenue and two hundred feet deep. Thereafter he conveyed the mortgaged premises to defendant Bugbee, who expressly assumed payment of the mortgage debt; later Bugbee conveyed to defendants…