Blackwell v. Blackwell
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Bill in equity, filed in the Supreme Judicial Court on March 30,1906, to remove a cloud from the plaintiff’s alleged title to certain parcels of real estate in that part of Boston called Allston, by the cancellation of a deed made by the plaintiff to the defendant, whom he soon after married and from whom he later obtained a divorce, and to compel the defendant to execute a release of the premises to the plaintiff, and in the alternative that a note and mortgage given by the…
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Bill in equity, filed in the Supreme Judicial Court on March 30,1906, to remove a cloud from the plaintiff’s alleged title to certain parcels of real estate in that part of Boston called Allston, by the cancellation of a deed made by the plaintiff to the defendant, whom he soon after married and from whom he later obtained a divorce, and to compel the defendant to execute a release of the premises to the plaintiff, and in the alternative that a note and mortgage given by the defendant to the plaintiff be declared to be still in force in spite of a discharge of the mortgage executed by the…
1Opinion of the CourtSheldon, J.
In April, 1889, the plaintiff, being then engaged to be married to the defendant and having in his hands a considerable amount of money belonging to her, executed a deed to her of certain real estate which he owned subject to some outstanding mortgages. He also caused to be drawn a note for $8,000 and a mortgage of the same real estate to secure this note, both running from her to himself, took them to the defendant and procured her to execute them, promising to discharge them upon the marriage. He then caused both deed and mortgage to be recorded, took them both from the registry of deeds to…
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