Fitchett v. Blows
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Nebraska. The appellees, Catherine M. Blows and Hurlburt B. Gheever, brought this action in the United States circuit court for the district of Nebraska, as executors of the last will of Amasa R. Gheever, against the appellants, Bva Fitchett and George H. Fitchett, and against G. H. Pray, J. C. Cornwall, and H. P. Dufur, to reform three promissory notes made by Eva Fitchett and G. H. Fitchett to Amasa R.…
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Appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Nebraska. The appellees, Catherine M. Blows and Hurlburt B. Gheever, brought this action in the United States circuit court for the district of Nebraska, as executors of the last will of Amasa R. Gheever, against the appellants, Bva Fitchett and George H. Fitchett, and against G. H. Pray, J. C. Cornwall, and H. P. Dufur, to reform three promissory notes made by Eva Fitchett and G. H. Fitchett to Amasa R. Olieever, to enforce the collection of these three notes, and of another note for $1,000, made by the Fitchetts to…
1Opinion of the Court
¡óAXnOJiX. Circuit Judge,
filter stating the facts as above, delivered tlie opinion of the court,
May a mortgagee maintain a bill in equity in the circuit court of the United States, to collect several promissory notes, and’ to foreclose several mortgages, made by the same promisors and mortgagors, where the mortgages secure the notes, respectively, upon separate pieces of real (’state, and the sum claimed ío bo due on no one of them equals §2.000, but (he aggregate amount claimed to be due on all of them exceeds that amount? The court below answered this question, without hesitation, in the…
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