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9 Paige Ch. 370

Thomas v. Brown

New York Court of Chancery

Decided January 5, 1842

New York Court of Chancery · decided 1842-01-05

, This was an application by the complainant in a foreclosure suit for leave to proceed to judgment in actions at law commenced for the recovery of the mortgage debt. Previous to the filing of his bill the complainant had commenced suits at law against some of the defendants, who had become personally responsible for the payment of the mortgage debt.

Decided 1842-01-05

The Chancellor.

¶1If the defendants in the suits at law consent that those suits may be discontinued without costs, the complainant will not be permitted to proceed to trial there. But as the suits were commenced in good faith and the complainant was afterwards compelled to resort to his bill of foreclosure, to obtain satisfaction of his debt out of the mortgaged premises, in consequence of the insolvency of the defendants who had been sued at law, he must be permitted to proceed to trial there if the defendants wish to test the question whether he is liable to pay their costs in those suits. If the defendants succeed in their defence in those suits, they will of course be entitled to their costs in the supreme court. But if they fail, the plaintiff’s costs must abide the further order of this court. And he is only to be permitted to proceed so far, in the suits at law, as to entitle him to enter up his judgments if he succeeds; but no judgment records are to be filed there until the further order of this court.

¶2Order accordingly.

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