Wolf v. Lowry

This is an hypothecary action by which the plaintiffs seek to subject certain property in the possession of the defendants, to a judicial mortgage in their favor, resulting from a judgment which they obtained in 1841, against Oliver B. Gobi.

*273The plaintiffs’judgment was duly recorded, so as to operate a judicial mortgage on the real estate owned by Cobb, and at the time of the registry he was the owner of the property in controversy, now sought to be subjected to the payment of the judgment. There was, however, at that time prior mortgages existing on the property to a very large amount. Under…