Cox v. Cutter

The Chancellor.

The bill is filed to compel the defendant, Mary Cutter, to cancel, on the ground that it has been fully paid, a mortgage given to her by the complainant, in 1864. The loan, which the mortgage was given to secure, was obtained for the complainant from Mrs. Cutter by an attorney-at-law, who paid over the money to the complainant, and received from him the bond and mortgage, which he delivered to Mrs. Cutter, who has held it in her own possession ever since. The complainant paid the interest up to January, 1867, to the attorney, and a year afterwards paid to him the principal,…