Snow v. Pressey
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
On report. This was a bill in equity to redeem a mortgage. (Abstract of bill). "I. That on the third day of March, 1874, the complainant was seized in fee of seven undivided eighth parts of a certain parcel of real estate therein described, situate in Pock land. "II.
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On report. This was a bill in equity to redeem a mortgage. (Abstract of bill). "I. That on the third day of March, 1874, the complainant was seized in fee of seven undivided eighth parts of a certain parcel of real estate therein described, situate in Pock land. "II. That on said third day of March, the complainant executed and delivered a mortgage of said real estate to one G. W. Candee and the defendant to secure payment of the sum of $4000 in four equal payments of $1000 each, in four, eight, twelve and sixteen months from the date thereof with seven per cent interest, according to the…
1Opinion of the CourtWalton, J.
This is a bill in equity, the prayer of which is that the plaintiff may be allowed to redeem certain real estate held by the defendant by virtue of a deed absolute in form, but which, by reason of an instrument of defeasance executed at the same time, was, in contemplation of law, no more than a mortgage.
The court has already decided that the plaintiff is entitled to redeem, and the case has been sent to a master to ascertain the amount due. (See Snow v. Pressey, 82 Maine, 552.) And the case is now before the law court on exceptions to the master’s report.
The principal contention is in…
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