Catlin v. Rea

This is an action in ejectment to recover possession of certain real estate in the city of Buffalo, lying between the Buffalo and Hamburg Turnpike and Lake Erie. Philander B. Catlin acquired title to this land in the year 1857. The prem*536ises were then subject to the lien of a mortgage given by a prior owner of the land in 1851 to one Reuben B. Heacock. An action to foreclose this mortgage was instituted in 1863 by the executors of the mortgagee, and Gatlin and the plaintiff herein, his widow, were made parties defendant, and personally served with summons and notice of object of action…