Crowell v. Keene

This is a bill in equity, filed on May 16, 1891, and amended on October 24 of the same year, to have a conveyance executed by Michael Robinson to Samuel Keene on April 14,1870, of six parcels of land in Wareham, declared a mortgage, on the ground that the conveyance, though absolute in form, was intended by the parties as security .for certain advances *353made and to be made to Robinson by Keene, and was understood by the parties to be a mortgage. The case was heard on its merits by a single justice of this court, who found that the deed set forth in the bill was an absolute deed, and ordered a…