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61 N.H. 254

Shaw v. Abbott

Supreme Court of New Hampshire

Decided December 5, 1881

Supreme Court of New Hampshire · decided 1881-12-05

Petition, to redeem land from a mortgage. Reported 60 N. H. 564. Facts found by the court. The defendant holds a third mortgage, given in 1871, and a fifth mortgage, given January 25, 1878, and the plaintiff holds a fourth mortgage, given in 1872, of the same land. The plaintiff, as holder of the fourth, seeks to redeem the land from the third.

Cited by 3 later decisions — most recently July 1950

3 state decisions

Relies on Gillig v. . Maass · Chase v. Dodge

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Decided 1881-12-05

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Dob, C. J.

¶1 The statutory petition to redeem is an action of a nature sufficiently equitable to bring the plaintiff within the rule that he who seeks equity must do equity ( Proctor v. Green, 59 N. H. 350, 352); and this rule does not allow him to avoid the agreed priority of the last mortgage. Story Eq., s. 64 e. His agreement can be enforced in an action brought by the defendant for specific performance; and there is no occasion to put the parties to the expense of another suit. Gillig v. Maass, 28 N. Y. 191, 213, 214. The plaintiff’s judgment for redemption will contain a *260 condition that the plaintiff pay the fifth mortgage as well as the third, or file with the clerk, for the defendant’s use, a sealed instrument that will give the fifth indisputable precedence; or the judgment will be drawn in some other form that will give the defendant the specific relief to which he is entitled.

¶2 Case discharged.

Stanley, J., did not sit: the others concurred.
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