Woodside v. Ridgeway
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Action on the Gen. Sts. c. 137, to recover possession of certain rooms in a house in Boston. The case was submitted to the Superior Court, and, after judgment for the plaintiff, to this court on appeal, on agreed facts, the substance of which appears in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtMorton, J.
It appears by the statement of facts that the defendants and one Comley were the owners of an undivided half of a house in Boston, Mrs. Weaver being the owner of the other undivided half; that, by an oral arrangement between the parties, the defendants took possession of, and have since exclusively occupied, the rooms in controversy; that afterwards, in July, 1874, the defendants and Comley mortgaged their undivided half to one Blackmar; that the mortgagee entered for breach of the condition, and sold the mortgaged premises to one Squire, under a power of sale contained in the mortgage; that…
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