Slack v. Black
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Bill in equity by the widow of Jonas R. Slack, and his children and heirs at law, “ who were on June 17, 1871, admitted as parties defendant under date of February 24, 1869, to a bill of complaint filed May 5, 1868, by George 1ST. Black against Wil-iam Lewis, for the redemption of certain mortgaged premises.”
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Bill in equity by the widow of Jonas R. Slack, and his children and heirs at law, “ who were on June 17, 1871, admitted as parties defendant under date of February 24, 1869, to a bill of complaint filed May 5, 1868, by George 1ST. Black against Wil-iam Lewis, for the redemption of certain mortgaged premises.” The bill alleged “that said Minerva Slack and others, June 10, 1871, filed an answer under oath to said bill of complaint, and file this bill against said Black to obtain a necessary discovery of facts in aid of their defence to said original bill, and for affirmative relief by a decree…
1Opinion of the CourtGray, J.
Allowing to the crude, confused and contradictory allegations of this bill the utmost possible effect, it contains no statement whatever of the nature of the defence of these plaintiffs to the original bill previously filed by this defendant; it sets up, with equal vagueness and imperfection, two inconsistent titles, one under a purchase by Jonas R. Slack from Enos Morgan, and the other under a disseisin of the latter by the former; it alleges that the deed from Morgan to Slack was signed and sealed, but leaves it, to say the least, ambiguous whether it was delivered, and contains no…
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