Cowley v. McLaughlin

This is a writ of entry, in which the demandant declares upon her seisin in mortgage. The tenants are purchasers at an execution sale, and their title depends upon the effect of the attachment in pursuance of which the sale was made.

The attachment was made, in October, 1873, of all the real estate of Charles Cowley in Middlesex County. At that time he appeared on the records of the registry of deeds as owning a third mortgage on the premises attached, but nothing more. In fact, this mortgage, and also a second mortgage, the assignment of which to him had not been recorded, had been assigned…