Legal Opinion

Potts v. Plaisted

Michigan Supreme Court

Decided July 24, 1874PublishedCited by 22 opinions

Appeals in Chancery from St. Clair Circuit. Three cases between the same parties, and resting upon the same facts, were heard and decided together.

1Opinion of the CourtChristiancy, J.

In each of these cases the bill is to foreclose a mortgage, and the only defense relied upon, against a decree of foreclosure and sale, was a tender of the amount due upon the respective mortgages before the filing of the bill, and the consequent discharge of the lien of the mortgage.

*150The only question, therefore, is one of fact, to be decided upon the evidence in the record, whether a tender was made of the amount due upon the respective mortgages, in such manner that complainant, the holder of the mortgages, understood it at the time as a present, absolute and unconditional tender of the…

2Cases cited3 opinions

  1. Caruthers v. HumphreyMichigan Supreme Court · 1864
  2. Moynahan v. MooreMichigan Supreme Court · 1860
  3. Van Husan v. KanouseMichigan Supreme Court · 1865

3Cited by22 opinions

  1. Doak v. BrusonCalifornia Supreme Court · 1907
  2. Mitchell v. RobertsUnited States Circuit Court · 1883
  3. Proctor v. RobinsonMichigan Supreme Court · 1877
  4. Weeks v. BakerMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1890
  5. Cowles v. MarbleMichigan Supreme Court · 1877

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