Pike v. Robertson

Ewing, C.

This is an action of ejectment commenced in April, 1879. The defendant answered and admitted his possession; that he held under a mortgage executed by Gabriel Long to Miles Hale and Benjamin Enott in December, 1861; that said mortgage was duly recorded January 21st, 1862; that it was due and unpaid ; that the defendant bought it, and Hale and Enott assigned it to him; that by mistake the land was misdescribed in said mortgage, when it was made, as in section 14, whereas it was m section 15; that Long intended to convey the right land, and he and the mortgagees supposed it was right;…