Brown v. Staples
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
This . was a petition for a writ of review, of the action, Peter Staples v. Horace Brown. That was a writ of entry, declaring upon two mortgages, one by Elliot Staples to John Welles, July 7, 1825, and the other by Winthrop Allen to Peter Staples, June 26, 1841. The conditional judgment was rendered for the amount due on both mortgages, and the petitioner for the review contends, that the judgment should have been rendered only for the amount due on the latter mortgage.
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This . was a petition for a writ of review, of the action, Peter Staples v. Horace Brown. That was a writ of entry, declaring upon two mortgages, one by Elliot Staples to John Welles, July 7, 1825, and the other by Winthrop Allen to Peter Staples, June 26, 1841. The conditional judgment was rendered for the amount due on both mortgages, and the petitioner for the review contends, that the judgment should have been rendered only for the amount due on the latter mortgage. The review sought was for the purpose of correcting that supposed error. ' The facts were to be ascertained, by a reference…
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The opinion of the Court was drawn up by
Shepley J.
— The original action was commenced upon two conveyances in mortgage of the premises described. A conditional judgment was rendered for the amount due upon both the mortgages. By the agreed statement it appears, that John Welles, on July 7, 1825, conveyed the premises to Elliot Staples, who at the same time reconveyed the same to Welles in mortgage, to secure the payment of his notes given for the purchase money. On June 2, 1837, Elliot Staples conveyed the same to Peter Staples, who on May 6, 1841, conveyed the same by a deed containing a…
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