Case Name: Webb versus Flanders
Court: Maine Supreme Judicial Court
Jurisdiction: Maine
Decision Date: 1850
Citations: 32 Me. 175
Docket Number: 
Parties: Webb versus Flanders.
Judges: 
Reporter: Maine Reports
Volume: 32
Pages: 175–176

Head Matter:
Webb versus Flanders.
If a mortgage, (which, was made to secure the performance of a bond,) be assigned, the mortgagee can maintain no action upon it, unless he have also some interest in the bond, for he could have no conditional judgment.
Entry, submitted for decision upon facts reported by a commissioner.
A father conveyed the land to the defendant, his son, taking a bond, (with a mortgage for its performance,) for the maintenance of the father. While these deeds were unrecorded, and before any breach of the bond, the father deeded with general warranty to the plaintiff, who had knowledge of the former conveyance.

Opinion:
By the Court.
1st. The plaintiff's deed, having been taken in fraud of defendant, cannot entitle him to an absolute judgment against the defendant.
2d. The deed to the plaintiff perhaps transferred the mortgage. It was a mortgage to secure performance of a bond. The bond was never assigned to plaintiff. Therefore he can have no conditional judgment. Nonsuit.