Hope v. Seaman

Plaintiff seeks to maintain partition, claiming to own in fee an undivided one-fifth part or share of the real property described in the complaint, being the mortgaged property sold pursuant to the judgment of foreclosure and sale in Hoople against Shevill and others, on September 15, 1886. Her contention is that, as she was not cut off and foreclosed by that judgment and the sale thereunder, she still has, as heir at law of the mortgagor, Sarah S. Shevill, her mother, such estate. The defendant James Benjamin Oric Shevill, her brother, and otherwise known as Benjamin J. Oric Shevill, by his…