57 Vt. 364 | Vt. | 1885
The opinion of the court was delivered by
On the 6th day of November, 1873, the Clarks owned the Holyoke farm consisting of one hundred and sixty-three acres, subject to a mortgage in favor of the petitioner of ten thousand five hundred and seventy dollars. The Clarks on that day conveyed seventy-five acres to A. 0. Brainerd, Herbert Brainerd, and Stranahan, the grantees agreeing to pay the Rugg mortgage. The consideration of the purchase was nine thousand three hundred and seventy-five dollars. On the same day the Clarks mortgaged the remaining eighty-eight acres with other lands to Aldis 0. Brainerd to secure him among other things in paying the excess of the mortgage over the purchase price of the seventy-five acre lot, viz.: 1,382 50-100 dollars, and for the payment of all other sums that the Clarks might thereafter owe the said Brainerd. It was understood at the same time that A. O. Brainerd should pay the said sum of 1,382 50-100 dollars, and an unsecured debt due from the Clarks to the petitioner. Aldis O. released his mortgage on twenty-five acres of the land so mortgaged to him, and the Clarks then mortgaged the same to the petitioner to secure such unsecured debt; and the twenty-five acres passed to the petitioner by foreclosure of his mortgage, Aldis O. being a party defendant. The petitioner subsequently sold the twenty-five acre lot. Said Aldis O. in pursuance of the
It is unnecessary to say anything upon the questions of evidence presented by the report; for treating the facts found from it as properly in the case, the petitioner is entitled to the relief sought notwithstanding such facts.
Decree affirmed and cause remanded.