Conley v. Barton - 260 U.S. 677 (1923)

U.S. Supreme Court

Conley v. Barton, 260 U.S. 677 (1923)

Conley v. Barton

No.193

Submitted January 9, 1923

Decided January 29, 1923

260 U.S. 677

Syllabus

The obligation of a mortgage contract under which the right of redemption is barred after lapse of one year from entry and taking possession by the mortgagee to foreclose, is not impaired by a state law, enacted after the date of the mortgage but before breach of condition, and requiring the mortgagee, if he would sustain such a foreclosure, to make and record, within three months after its completion, an affidavit of the facts. P. 260 U. S. 680.

119 Me. 581 affirmed.

Error to a judgment of the Supreme Judicial Court of Maine affirming a judgment for the plaintiff in a suit to redeem property from a mortgage foreclosure.