99 Me. 317 | Me. | 1904
This is a bill in equity brought by the plaintiff to redeem certain real estate from a purchase-money mortgage given by the plaintiff to Hiram Bliss, the defendant’s intestate, May 16, 1896. The defendant demurred to the bill, and the case comes to this court on exceptions to the overruling of the demurrer.
Section 15 of chapter 92, B. S., provides that “any mortgagor . . . . may demand of the mortgagee ... a true account of the sum due on the mortgage and of the rents and profits and money expended in repairs and improvements, if any; and if he unnecessarily refuses or neglects to render such account in writing, or in any other way by his default prevents the plaintiff from performing or tendering performance of the condition of the mortgage^ he may bring his bill in equity for the redemption of the mortgaged premises within the time limited in section seven, and therein offer to pay the sum found to be equitably due, or perform any other condition as the case may require; and such offer has the same force as a tender of payment or performance before the commencement of the suit; and the bill shall be sustained without such tender.”
A bill to redeem real estate from a mortgage by virtue of this statute will not be entertained by this court without full compliance on the part of the plaintiff witli these statutory prerequisites. Brown v. Snell, 46 Maine, 490; Munro v. Barton, 95 Maine, 262. The plaintiff not only fails to make any offer in his bill to pay the sum found to be equitably due on the mortgage, but the bill contains no allegation of any prior tender of payment by the plaintiff, or of any neglect or refusal on the part of the defendant to render an account of the amount due as requested by the plaintiff, or that the defendant
Exceptions sustained. Demurrer sustained. Cause remanded for further proceedings in accordance with this opinion.