Lynch v. Newburyport Five Cents Savings Bank
Lynch v. Newburyport Five Cents Savings Bank
Opinion of the Court
This is a suit in equity commenced on October 19, 1934, in which the plaintiff, as owner of an undivided half interest in three parcels of real estate described in the bill, seeks to enjoin the defendant from proceeding with the foreclosure of three mortgages on the properties. The plaintiff also asks that an accounting be taken relative thereto, and that the defendant be ordered to release possession of said real estate on the plaintiff paying “what the court judges proper on the interest and discharging the 1933 taxes.” The three mortgages are on properties situated on Kensington and Bainbridge streets in that part of Boston known as Roxbury, in the principal sums of $5,500, $6,000 and $6,000 respectively, which were given by Sarah Goldman and others, each being dated October 17, 1910, and payable in three years from date.
The case was heard by a judge of the Superior Court. At the close of the evidence the plaintiff requested the judge to make twenty-five rulings. A final decree was entered on April 4, 1935, dismissing the bill. The plaintiff duly claimed an exception to the refusal to grant his requests. The plaintiff's exceptions were filed April 23, 1935, and were allowed May 27, 1935. On April 9, 1935, the plaintiff filed a request that a report of the material facts found by the judge be made. The judge found the following facts: The plaintiff is a lawyer. In 1914 he became the owner of an undivided third interest in the properties here in issue, subject to three mortgages held by the defendant. The mortgages are overdue. In 1923 the plaintiff's interest in the properties was increased to an undivided half. He looked after the property, collected the rents, paid the mortgage interest, made payments from time to time on account of principal, and also paid taxes, insurance and other expenses of maintaining the property. For the past two or more years the rents have been insufficient to pay interest and taxes.
The trial was concluded on.or about March 5, 1935, and the plaintiff was given further time to arrange if possible to save his property. It appearing that he had been unable to do so, a final decree was entered April 4, 1935.
An examination of the plaintiff's requests for rulings makes it plain that none of them properly could have been given. There is nothing in the record or in the findings of the trial judge to show that the plaintiff has offered to pay or has tendered to the defendant the amount due on the mortgages held by it to entitle the plaintiff to redeem as required by G. L. (Ter. Ed.) c. 244, § 19. Manifestly the plaintiff is not entitled to redeem without tendering or offering to pay the amount due upon the mortgages. Mann v. Richardson, 21 Pick. 355, 360. Lamb v. Montague, 112 Mass. 352, 353. Adams v. Brown, 7 Cush. 220, 223.
Exceptions overruled.
Decree affirmed with costs.
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