Case Name: John Pitts, Administrator, versus Elisha Tilden & Al.
Court: Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Jurisdiction: Massachusetts
Decision Date: 1806-09
Citations: 1 Tyng 118
Docket Number: 
Parties: John Pitts, Administrator, versus Elisha Tilden & Al.
Judges: 
Reporter: Massachusetts Reports
Volume: 2
Pages: 115–115

Head Matter:
John Pitts, Administrator, versus Elisha Tilden & Al.
Conditional judgment on a mortgage shall be for the amount of principal and interest due, though it exceed the penalty of the bond.
Ejectment on a mortgage to the plaintiff’s intestate, dated July 15, 1768.
Leavitt, for the plaintiff,
moves for the conditional judgment prescribed by the “ Act giving remedies in equity,” the amount of principal and interest due on the mortgage exceeding the penalty of the bond.
* Bliss, for the defendants,
„opposed entering judg- [*119] ment for more than the penalty of the bond, and said the Court had heretofore been divided on this question.
Passed November 4, 1785.

Opinion:
Per Curiam.
This has never been questioned except in case of a surety. It has been ruled so often in ' the case of the principal, that the point cannot now be brought into question. It rests on principles of law as well as equity.
Harris vs. Clap & Al. 1 Mass. Rep. 308. — Peers vs. Baldwin, 2 Eq. Cas. Abr. 611, pl. 4. —3 Atk. 518. — Atwell's Exrs. vs. Fowles, 1 Munf. 375. — Tennant, Exr. vs. Gray, 5 Munf. 494. —Moore vs. Fenwick, Gilm. R. 234. — Smedes vs. Haughtaling, 3 Caine, 48 — Treadwell vs. M'Keal, 2 Johns. Cas. 340. — Troup vs. Wood, 4 John. Ch. 228. — Brown vs. Hallet, 1 Caine, R. 518. — Graham vs. Bickham, 4 Dall. 149. — Sed vide Warner vs. Thurlo & Al. 15 Mass. Rep 154, and note to third ed.—1 Powell, Mort. 15, note L, 355, note Q, and the numerous cases there cited. It is there stated to be now settled that interest on a bond cannot be computed beyond the penalty.— Atkinson vs. Atkinson, 1 Ball Beatty, 228. — Clark vs. Seaton, 6 Ves. 415. — Mackworth vs. Thomas, 5 Ves. 329. — Wild vs. Clarkson, 6 D. & E. 303. — White vs. Sealy Dougl. 49. — Clark vs. Abingdon, 17 Ves. 106. — Jevon vs. Brush, 1 Vern. 342. — Steward vs. Rumball, 2 Vernon, 509.