Scanlon v. Parish
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Suit to foreclose a mortgage of real estate, brought to the Superior Court in Tolland County and tried to the court, Ralph Wheeler, J., upon a demurrer to the complaint; the court overruled the demurrer and subsequently rendered judgment for the plaintiff, from which the defendant appealed.
1Opinion of the CourtThayer, J.
The complaint shows that the plaintiff and defendant are tenants in common, each of an undivided one half, of an equity of redemption in land which is described in the complaint, and that since they became cotenants the plaintiff has acquired title, by assignment for a valuable consideration, to the mortgage sought to be foreclosed. The note which the mortgage secures was given by a former owner of the land, and, so far as appears, neither the plaintiff nor the defendant is personally liable upon it. The circumstances attending the plaintiff’s acquisition of the note and mortgage do not…
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