Hill v. Howell

The Chancellor.

This suit is brought for foreclosure and sale of mortgaged premises (containing about one hundred acres) in Sussex county. The complainant’s mortgage is dated April 1st, 1864, and was given by Robert H. Howell and wife to Susan Rorbach, now deceased, to secure the payment of $6,000 (of which $1,000 have been paid) in two years from date, with interest at the rate of six per cent, per annum, according to his bond to her of that date. Susan Rorbaoh died January 9th, 1873. Her executors assigned the bond and mortgage, on the 7th of April, in the same year, to Luther Hill, who died…