Work v. Brayton

Bill by John C. Work against Benjamin C. and George Brayton, to foreclose a mortgage. These defendants answered, and thereupon one Charles S. Moore appeared and petitioned the Court to be made a defendant, with the Braytons, to the bill, asserting that he held claims which were a lien, paramount to the mortgage sought to be foreclosed, upon the land covered by the mortgage. The Court granted his petition, and, upon the final hearing of the cause, found that his lien had precedence, and decreed that it should be first discharged out of the proceeds of the sale of the mortgaged property.

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