Sowles v. Hall
Supreme Court of Vermont
Bill in chancery to compel the defendants to specifically perform a certain written contract for the sale of the premises im question, or to foreclose the defendants’ equity of redemption, therein as might be equitable. Heard upon pleadings and a. master’s report at the September Term, 1888. Tart, Chancellor,, dismissed the bill, pro forma. The oratrix appeals.
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Bill in chancery to compel the defendants to specifically perform a certain written contract for the sale of the premises im question, or to foreclose the defendants’ equity of redemption, therein as might be equitable. Heard upon pleadings and a. master’s report at the September Term, 1888. Tart, Chancellor,, dismissed the bill, pro forma. The oratrix appeals. The oratrix was the daughter of E. A. Sowles, and in all the-transactions referred to the said E. A. Sowles acted as the agent of the oratrix. The defendant Ida A. Hall was the wife of the-defendant B. C. Hall, and in these same…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Boyce, Oh. J.
This cause was heard on the pleadings and' master’s report, from which it appears that the mortgages given to Babbett and to the Ottauqueehee Savings Bank were foreclosed, and Edward A. Sowles, who held a subsequent mortgage» upon the same premises, was made a defendant in the foreclosure-proceedings. Decrees were entered in both of the suits, and the equity of redemption was allowed to expire. Sowles’ equitable interest in the agreements subsequently made with the owner of the title by which Sowles acquired the title did not have…
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