Board of Home Missions of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America v. Davis

BERGEN, Y. C.

William Davis mortgaged certain lands in Warren county, in this state, to the complainants, who instituted proceedings against the heirs-at-law of Davis, he having died intestate, to foreclose the equity of redemption. This defendant M. Eva Davis, who was one of the heirs-at-law of William Davis, set up as a defence in the foreclosure proceedings that her father, William Davis, had no title to the premises when he gave the mortgage, hut this defence was overruled, and a decree was made directing the sale of the land to raise the mortgage debt, following the rule laid down in…