Springfield State Building Corp. v. Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance

This is a suit in equity wherein the plaintiff asks the court in effect to determine for the parties what sum they ought to agree upon, and the plaintiff ought to pay and the defendant to accept for a partial release from a mortgage, held by the defendant upon real estate said to be owned by the plaintiff, of a portion of the premises described in said mortgage. The judge dismissed the suit and the case is before this court on appeal by the plaintiff.

The pertinent facts found by the trial judge are in substance as follows: On February 1, 1928, the defendant sold and conveyed to The Republican…