Twichell v. Mears

BLODGETT, District Judge.

This is an action brought on an alleged promise by defendant to pay the amount of a trust deed, in the nature of a mortgage, made by Austin H. Stowell to the plaintiff, on a certain *424■lot in Highland Park. The proof shows that Stowell was the owner of the lot in question, and had borrowed of the plaintiff fifteen hundred dollars, which was secured ■ by a mortgage on the lot; that he sold the lot to the defendant on the 15th day of April, 1875, for the sum of three thousand and twenty-five dollars, of which sum the mortgage in question was a part. The deed from Stowell…