Ohio Life Insurance & Trust Co. v. Ross

The Chancellor:

The proceedings in this case show that on the 31st July, 1845, Robert B. Hancock and Thomas W. Mann, being about to become indebted to Frederick Dawson and Lambert S. Nor-wood, by promissory notes, and bills of exchange to be drawn, accepted, or indorsed, by Hancock and Mann, and by them passed to Dawson and Norwood, to an amount not to exceed at any one time, fifty thousand dollars, for the purpose of securing them in respect thereof, executed to the said Dawson and Norwood, on that day a mortgage of a lot, a parcel of ground in Baltimore county, for which the grantors held…