Richardson v. B. D.B.R. Co.

The appellee recovered a judgment against the appellants in an action of ejectment for the land described in the declaration and nominal damages. At the trial the defendant offered in evidence a mortgage from the plaintiff to J. Rogers Maxwell, and Robert W. de Forrest, trustees, "for the purpose of showing that the plaintiff had not such a title to the property in controversy as to entitle it to sustain the action of ejectment," and the Court, upon objection, refused to admit it. As the only exception taken was to that ruling of the Court, the question before us is whether the mortgage, in…