Rowe v. Lewis

Suit by the appellants against the appellees to “ recover real property.” The complaint is in the statutory form, averring a legal title to the possession.

The defendants answered, that on the 1st of September, 1853, “The Cincinnati, New Castle and Michigan Railroad Company,” for the purpose of borrowing money with which to buiid her road, issued bonds to the amount of seventy-five thousand dollars; and, for the purpose of securing the payment of said bonds, by a deed of trust and mortgage, a copy of which is made a part of the answer, conveyed to Thomas J. Sample and Thomas Corwin real…