Davis v. Piggott
Supreme Court of New Jersey
On appeal from a decree ad.vised by Vice-Chancellor .Reed, whose opinion is reported in 11 Dick. Ch. Rep. 634.
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Van Syckel,- J.
Kaniper owned one hundred and eighty-one acres of land. In 1863 he gave a first mortgage on the whole tract to Cress-man for $2,000. In 1875 he gave a mortgage to De Witt for $600.
In 1876 Kaniper sold one hundred and eleven acres of the tract to Piggott.
Piggott gave a mortgage on the one hundred and eleven acres to Kaniper for $2,000.
All these mortgages were duly recorded.
In June, 1877, Kaniper assigned his mortgage to Lawall.
In December, 1877, Cressman executed to Kaniper a release of the seventy acres (which Kaniper still owned) from…
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