Legal Opinion

Ricketson v. Richardson

California Supreme Court

Decided July 1, 1861PublishedCited by 17 opinions

Appeal from the Seventh District. Bill against Richardson, Throckmorton, Moss, Hood, Davidson, Young, executor of Walkinshaw deceased, and Torres, executor, etc., to foreclose certain mortgages. All the defendants, except Moss and Throckmorton, claim an interest under subsequent mortgages.

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Appeal from the Seventh District. Bill against Richardson, Throckmorton, Moss, Hood, Davidson, Young, executor of Walkinshaw deceased, and Torres, executor, etc., to foreclose certain mortgages. All the defendants, except Moss and Throckmorton, claim an interest under subsequent mortgages. Moss claims under a prior mortgage to James Black, and Throckmorton claims as purchaser under an order of sale by deed from the Sheriff, under a foreclosure of a prior mortgage to'Myers and Bennett. Throckmorton also claims as a purchaser of the equity of redemption, after all the mortgages, by deed from…

1Opinion of the CourtBaldwin, J.

Field, C. J. concurring.

This was a bill filed by plaintiff in February, 1856, against one Wm. A. Richardson and others for the foreclosure of a certain mortgage, made by Richardson in his lifetime, of a rancho in Marin county, called the Saucelito Rancho, containing three square leagues, more or less, claimed under a Mexican grant. The mortgage, as alleged, was given to secure three promissory notes, dated *346twenty-fifth March, 1852—one to the order of Jeremiah Clarke for $3,320, one to the order of L. Etoubleau for $2,360, one to the order of Charles Myer for $3,540—each payable six months…

2Cases cited3 opinions

  1. Stoughton v. PascoSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1825
  2. Dean v. De LezardiCourt of Appeals of Mississippi · 1852
  3. Pike v. CollinsSupreme Judicial Court of Maine · 1851

3Cited by17 opinions

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  4. Brennan v. ClarkNebraska Supreme Court · 1890
  5. Hunt v. CurryTennessee Supreme Court · 1925

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