Heydle v. Hazlehurst

OPINION'of the Court, by

Judge Owsley.

Hey-dle, to secure to Hazlehurst the payment of a debt, for the recovery cf which a suit was depending at law, executed ⅛ mortgage on a tract of land. Jtidgnent having been obtained in the action at law, and Heydle failing to pay the same according to the condition of the mortgage, Hazlehurst brought his suit in equity to foreclose Hey-dle’s equity of redemption, arid subject the land to the payment of the debt. Heydle failing to answer the bill, it was taken for confessed, and a decree pronounced in favor of Hazlehurst for the amount, of the judgment at…