Legal Opinion
Hawes v. Detroit Fire & Marine Insurance
Michigan Supreme Court
Decided May 19, 1896PublishedCited by 14 opinions
Appeal from Kalamazoo; Buck, J. Bill by Josiah L. Hawes against the Detroit Fire & Marine Insurance Company to set aside a sheriff’s deed on foreclosure. From a decree for complainant, defendant appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtMontgomery, J.
Complainant filed a bill to set aside a deed made on a statutory foreclosure of a mortgage executed by himself and wife. The mortgage contained a provision that in case of default in payment of the interest at its maturity, continuing for a period of 30 days, the principal sum, with all the arrearages of interest, should become due and payable immediately. The property mortgaged was described in the mortgage as follows:
“The southwest quarter, (160) one hundred sixty acres, and the southerly thirty (30) acres of the east half of the northwest quarter, section number nineteen (19); also, that…
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