McNair v. . Pope

Duncan McNair being indebted to John McCallum in a considerable sum, for which he had given his notes to assure and provide for the payment thereof, on 20 January, 1869, conveyed by deed of mortgage to the latter three several tracts of land, containing (405) in the aggregate more than eleven hundred acres, and conferring a right to sell in case the debts were not paid on or before the first day of January, 1874. Early in the year 1871, the said McCallum died, having made a will, wherein he appoints Alexander McRae and John McRae executors, who, after proving the will, accepted the trusts and…