Legal Opinion

Strong v. Jackson

Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court

Decided July 3, 1877PublishedCited by 23 opinions

Bill in equity by Elizabeth F. Strong against Abraham Jackson, his assignees in bankruptcy, Edwin E. Kingsley, the Tremont National Bank, the First National Bank of Boston and John McQuaid, to redeem a mortgage.

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Bill in equity by Elizabeth F. Strong against Abraham Jackson, his assignees in bankruptcy, Edwin E. Kingsley, the Tremont National Bank, the First National Bank of Boston and John McQuaid, to redeem a mortgage. At the hearing, before Endicott, J., the parties agreed that such decree might be entered, without regard to the form of the pleadings, as the court should think proper, on the facts, to decide their respective rights, and, there being no fact in dispute, the judge reserved the case for the consideration of the full court. If the plaintiff was entitled to redeem, the case was to be…

1Opinion of the CourtLord, J.

We have again to decide which of several persons who have done no wrong shall suffer by reason of the fraud of Abraham Jackson. The plaintiff, on April 28, 1874, was the owner of a note made to her by John McQuaid for the sum of $3500, which note was secured by a first mortgage upon certain land in Boston. On June 30, 1874, her son in law, Edwin E. Kingsley, desired to borrow of Abraham Jackson the sum of $3200, which Jackson agreed to lend upon receiving an assignment of said mortgage as collateral security therefor. The plaintiff, to accommodate her son in law, assented to this, and…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. Parks v. BishopMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1876

3Cited by23 opinions

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  2. Cornish v. WoolvertonMontana Supreme Court · 1905
  3. Murphy v. BarnardMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1894
  4. Sullivan v. HudginsMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1939
  5. United States Trust Co. v. CommonwealthMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1923

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