Phelps v. Root
Supreme Court of Vermont
Appeal in Chancery, Grand Isle County. Heard at Chambers, July 31, 1905, on pleadings, master’s report, and exceptions thereto. Rowell, Chancellor. Exceptions overruled. Decree of redemption for the orators “according to the prayer of the bill and the agreement found by the master.” The defendants appealed.
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Appeal in Chancery, Grand Isle County. Heard at Chambers, July 31, 1905, on pleadings, master’s report, and exceptions thereto. Rowell, Chancellor. Exceptions overruled. Decree of redemption for the orators “according to the prayer of the bill and the agreement found by the master.” The defendants appealed. The prayer of the bill is: “That the said Lydia M. Root may be ordered, and decreed to render an account of the rents, profits and products of said premises since she went into possession of the same, and that these complainants may be ordered and allowed to redeem said premises by the…
1Opinion of the CourtWatson, J.
The Burlington Savings Bank, the owner of the first mortgage on the lands described in the bill, brought its petition to foreclose the same at the April term, 1892, of the court of chancery in the county of Chittenden, making the *497orators in this case and one J. D. Beeman, the then owners of the equity of redemption, and Lydia M. Root, the defendant in this case, the owner and holder of a second mortgage, parties defendant. A decree was obtained that unless the defendants therein pay to the bank the sum of $4,167.91 with interest from the nth day of April, 1892, to the time of payment, and…
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