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149 Mass. 152

Cunniff v. Parker

Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · decided 1889-05-09

Bill in equity to redeem land in Natick from a mortgage, alleging that the land in question was purchased hy the plaintiff’s husband, Martin Cunniff, largely with her money, and was conveyed to the plaintiff by him on April 15, 1887, through a third person, subject to the mortgage; that on July 15,1886, Martin gave his promissory note to the defendant, who duly recovered judgment on the note, and an execution issued thereon; that the equity of redemption in the land was sold…

Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently January 1919

4 state decisions

Good law ✅— No negative treatment on recordhow we know

Decided 1889-05-09

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Holmes, J.

¶1If the issues framed were ever material, they have ceased to be so. It was stated, and admitted at the bar, that the defendant’s writ of entry, as purchaser at the execution sale, against the plaintiff, as fraudulent grantee of the judgment debtor, has been entered “ neither party.” This being so, the defendant’s right under the sale is at an end, because the levy is void by the terms of the Pub. Sts. c. 172, § 49. That section means, of course, not only that the purchaser must begin his suit within a year, but that he must prosecute it with effect. The only right the defendant now has is under the mortgage which he has purchased, and the plaintiff has the right to redeem it, whether her husband’s conveyance to her was in fraud of his creditors or not.

¶2Issues discharged.

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