PETERSON v. REILLY

No. 5199.

105 N.H. 340 (1964)

ABBIE M. PETERSON, Ex'x & a. v. JOHN J. REILLY, INC. & a.

Supreme Court of New Hampshire.

Decided April 24, 1964.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

McLane, Carleton, Graf, Greene & Brown, Jack B. Middleton and Harkaway & Pappagianis (Mr. Stanley M. Brown orally), for the plaintiffs Abbie M. Peterson, executrix, Powers Regulator Company, Corriveau-Routhier, Inc., C. J. Bosselli, Dorothy C. Spear, executrix, Scovell Wellington & Co. and Bloom, South & Gurney.

Wiggin, Nourie, Sundeen, Nassikas & Pingree (Mr. John N. Nassikas orally), pro se, and for Warren N. P. Wurm and Marjorie F. Wurm, mortgagees.

Fisher, Parsons, Moran & Temple (Mr. Harold D. Moran orally), for Joseph Michael Realty Corporation, mortgagee.

James M. Winston, Trustee in Bankruptcy (by brief and orally), pro se.

Devine, Millimet, McDonough, Stahl & Branch and Green, Green, Romprey & Sullivan (Mr. Norman H. Stahl orally), for Lyons Iron Works, Inc., John J. Reilly, Inc. and Thomas F. O'Brien, sheriff.

Emile R. Bussiere (by brief and orally), for Bertrand P. Cote, and Attilio and Gladys Baldini.

King & Nixon for P. H. McGranahan, Samuel A. Margolis for A. W. Therrien Co., Hamblett, Kerrigan & Hamblett for James Linatsas, and Manning & Sullivan for Lane Fearon, furnished no briefs.


DUNCAN, J.

The decree in this case determines the relative priority of eighteen claims to the fund in the custody of the court, on the basis of evidence presented over a period of twelve days of trial. The issues presented, however, lie in comparatively narrow compass. They relate primarily to the status of a second mortgage given to secure the payment of $40,000, referred to as the Wurm mortgage, and a third mortgage given to secure the payment of $75,000 known as...

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