Wescott v. Wicks

The imperfect manner in which this case is presented, renders it quite difficult to get at the merits. The transcript of the record, as we understand it, presents a case of a bill in chancery, filed by the appellant, in a double aspect—first, to' revive a mortgage, of which appellant became the owner by assignment from one Pease, to whom it had been executed by Chauncey E. Wicks and A. W. Wicks to secure the purchase money for the lands described in it, and which they had purchased of Pease, and which, by assignment, became the property of appellant. The ground of this prayer seems to be,…