Ketchum v. Robinson

In October, , 1879, George O. Mahon filed his bill to foreclose a mortgage given by Daniel B. Hibbard, Jr., and Irene T. Hibbard, his wife, to said Mahon. Marshall D. Robinson was in possession under a contract to pur*619chase from the mortgagor and one Kane, but the latter had transferred his interest to Hibbard. The mortgage was given with Robinson’s assent. In October, 1878, Hibbard deeded .to his wife and transferred to her his interest in the contract, and in 1879 she assigned the contract to one Abbott and the petitioner Ketchum to indemnify them for being sureties for her husband in a…