Van Dyke v. Davis
Michigan Supreme Court
Appeal from the Decree of the Circuit Court of Oakland County; In Chancery. The bill in this case was filed by the complainants to foreclose a certain mortgage, and is in the usual form, setting out and alleging the execution and delivery by Davis, one of the defendants, of four notes and a bond for the payment of some $2,100; also the execution and delivery of a certain mortgage, as security for the payment thereof, by both defendants, &e.
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Appeal from the Decree of the Circuit Court of Oakland County; In Chancery. The bill in this case was filed by the complainants to foreclose a certain mortgage, and is in the usual form, setting out and alleging the execution and delivery by Davis, one of the defendants, of four notes and a bond for the payment of some $2,100; also the execution and delivery of a certain mortgage, as security for the payment thereof, by both defendants, &e. The complainants further allege, that fifteen hundred dolíais of the amount specified, was to secure a debt due to Joseph Arnold, one of the complainants…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court, Pratt, J.
From a full and careful examination of the transcript sent up from the Circuit, no valid ground for the appeal can bo discovered either in the proceedings or in tíre decree; and on the hearing in this Court, no person appeared on the part of the defendants, to point out any. It is true, that since the case has been under advisement, a paper purporting to be a brief on their behalf, has been delivered; and if the author did not intend to have it read, nor his grounds of error understood, he has been extremely fortunate in carrying out and consummating such intention.
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