Supreme Court of Connecticut January 19, 1891 (Osborne v. Taylor)

ToeiiaNCK, J.

On the 10th of June, 1872, Munson Taylor was the owner of three separate tracts of land in Red-ding. On that day he entered into an obligation in writing, with his mother, Jane Taylor, now deceased, to pay her yearly a certain sum of money during her life, and, to secure the performance thereof, mortgaged to her two of these tracts of land.