Murphy v. Merry

A bill in chancery was filed in the Vigo Circuit Court, by Joseph K. Merry against Charles B. Modisett, William Corry, and John D. Murphy, alleging that the complainant on the 11th of May, 1839, was indebted to Modisett , in a fraction over 500 dollars, balance of purchase-money on out-lot forty-two in Terre-Haute; that on the same day, he confessed a judgment in the Court above named for the amount, to Modisett, on his agreement to make a deed for the lot so soon as complainant should cause said judgment to be replevied by satisfactory bail, which bail was procured in the person of one Zenas…