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UNION MUT. LIFE INSURANCE CO. v. HANFORD

No. 25.

143 U.S. 187 (1892)

12 S.Ct. 437

36 L.Ed. 118

UNION MUTUAL LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY, v. HANFORD.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided February 29, 1892.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. P.S. Grosscup and Mr. Frank L. Wean for appellant, submitted on their brief.

Mr. Walter H. Smith for appellees. Mr. J.H. McGowan was with him on the brief.

MR. JUSTICE GRAY, after stating the case as above, delivered the opinion of the court.

Few things have been the subject of more difference of opinion and conflict of decision than the nature and extent of the right of a mortgagee of real estate against a subsequent grantee who by the terms of the conveyance to him agrees to assume and pay the mortgage.

All agree that the grantee is liable to the grantor, and that, as between them, the grantee is the principal...

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