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20 Mich. 224

Dalrymple v. Sheehan

Michigan Supreme Court

Decided April 23, 1870

Michigan Supreme Court · decided 1870-04-23

Appeal in Chancery from Wayne Circuit Court. The complainant, Dalrymple, and one of the defendants, Sheehan, on the twenty-sixth day of December, 1867, bought of Thomas Reath the .brig Sunbury, used in navigating the northern lakes and rivers, at the agreed price of $8,500. The complainant in his bill avers that it was understood and agreed that he and Sheehan should each pay said Reath for said vessel, the sum of $4,250, and should be equal part owners of said vessel.

Cited by 1 later decisions — most recently September 1894

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Decided 1870-04-23

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Per Curiam.

¶1There were no equities attaching against the liability sued on, as against the original holder, who had a perfect right to enforce it according to its terms. This being so, there is nothing to prevent McGonegal, as assignee, from enforcing the same rights. He had a right to purchase it and to proceed upon it in any lawful way. The fact that there were equities between Dalrymple and Sheehan cannot raise equities as to third parties, who may require performance of the contract as the parties saw fit to make it.

¶2As the mortgage was oh the entire vessel, it should be so treated on foreclosure. There would be no propriety in selling the half interest separately. In marshalling securities covering several parcels, the land may be sold in such order as will best carry out the principles of equity, but there is no instance where an entire parcel, mortgaged as such, has been sold in separate undivided interests; nor would such ■ a sale of a vessel tend to raise more money than a sale of the entirety. It would rather lead to mischief, as it might be a decided objection to purchasing one half, that the other was in bad hands.

¶3There is no equity in the bill, and it should have been dismissed below, as it must be here.

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