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Tucker v. Lake

Tucker v. Lake.

Tucker v. Lake, 29 A. 406 (N.H. 1892)
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Court
Supreme Court of New Hampshire · State Highest Courts
Decided
June 5, 1892
Judges
Chase, Cakpenteb
Citations
29 A. 40667 N.H. 193
Headnotes
A bill in equity to foreclose a mortgage of real property is a local action. If a suit in equity is begun in a wrong county, the error may be cured by transferring it to the proper county.
Summary
I! ill in Equity, to foreclose a mortgage of land situated in Merrimack county. The defendant’s' motion to dismiss the bill for want of jurisdiction was denied, and the plaintiff’s motion to transfer the suit to that county was granted, subject to the defendant’s exception.

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Opinion of the Court — Chase

Chase, J.

The suit, being for the recovery of real property, should have been brought in Merrimack county where the property is situated. 1 Chit. Pl. 268;

Worster v. Lake Compa ny, 25 N. H. 525, 530;

Bay State Iron Company v. Goodall, 39 N. H. 223, 232;

Bancroft v. Conant, 64 N. H. 151. The error was curable by an order transferring the suit to that county. P. S., c.

222, ss.

7, 8;

Bartlett v. Lee, 60 N. H. 168;

Wheeler & Wilson Mfg. Company v. Whitcomb, 62 N. H. 411. Whether justice required the order to be made, was a question of fact that was decided affirmatively at the trial term, and the decision'is not re viewable here.

Hazen v. Quimby, 61 N. H. 76;

Garvin v. Legery, 61 N. H. 153;

Gagnon v. Connor, 64 N. H. 276;

Holman v. Manning, 65 N. H. 92.

Fxception overruled.

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

How later courts describe this case

No later court has written an explanatory parenthetical about this case yet.

1898: 11903: 11914: 11916: 11917: 12014: 118982026peak 1898 · 1

Relies on it most ⓘ

  1. Lacoss v. Lebanon101 A. 364 (N.H. 1917)
  2. McDonald v. Second National Bank76 N.W. 1011 (Iowa 1898)
  3. Brown v. Ellsworth55 A. 356 (N.H. 1903)
  4. Whitcher v. Union Grange Fair Ass'n92 A. 735 (N.H. 1914)
  5. Langdell v. Eastern Basket & Veneer Co.99 A. 90 (N.H. 1916)
  6. Giroux v. Fed Nt’l Mortgage Assoc.2014 DNH 135 (D.N.H. 2014)

Most recent

  1. Giroux v. Fed Nt’l Mortgage Assoc.2014 DNH 135 (D.N.H. 2014)
  2. Lacoss v. Lebanon101 A. 364 (N.H. 1917)
  3. Langdell v. Eastern Basket & Veneer Co.99 A. 90 (N.H. 1916)
  4. Whitcher v. Union Grange Fair Ass'n92 A. 735 (N.H. 1914)
  5. Brown v. Ellsworth55 A. 356 (N.H. 1903)
  6. McDonald v. Second National Bank76 N.W. 1011 (Iowa 1898)

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Authorities cited 7

DepthCaseCited by
Bartlett v. Lee, 60 N.H. 168 (1880) 9
Garvin v. Legery, 61 N.H. 153 (1881) 6
Gagnon v. Connor, 9 A. 631 (N.H. 1886) 3
Hazen v. Quimby, 61 N.H. 76 (1881) 3
Wheeler & Wilson M'f'g Co. v. Whitcomb, 62 N.H. 411 (1882) 2
Holman v. Manning, 18 A. 746 (N.H. 1889) 1
Bancroft v. Conant, 5 A. 836 (N.H. 1886) 1

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